By Anders Blok, Torben Elgaard Jensen
French sociologist and thinker, Bruno Latour, is among the most important and inventive thinkers of the final a long time. Bruno Latour: Hybrid ideas in a Hybrid international is the 1st complete and obtainable English-language advent to this multi-faceted paintings.
The booklet makes a speciality of center Latourian themes:
• contribution to technology reviews (STS – technological know-how, expertise & Society)
• philosophical method of the increase and fall of modernity
• leading edge ideas on politics, nature, and ecology
•contribution to the department of sociology often called ANT – Actor-Network Theory.
With ANT, Latour has pioneered an method of socio-cultural research equipped at the idea that social lifestyles arises in advanced networks of actants – humans, issues, principles, norms, applied sciences, etc – influencing one another in dynamic methods. This ebook explores how Latour is helping us make experience of the altering interrelations of technology, know-how, society, nature, and politics past modernity.
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Given the fact that Latour is still a prolific writer at the time of this introductory book’s release, the provisional nature of such designations, however, should be obvious. Moreover, we consider the different professional identities as partially concurrent and overlapping, rather than as clearly distinct from each other in time or substance. The identities highlight different tones, thematic points of reference and central domains of discussion – they are fluid transitions rather than definitive shifts.
However, this depiction is not consistent with the actual sequence of events in the laboratory. First, scientists work on and with materials and inscription devices; next, they obtain increasingly stable inscriptions; and finally, they determine the existence of a new substance. The anthropological observer, attuned to details and not inclined to simply accept the scientists’ own accounts, must conclude that substances are a kind of 32 Anthropology of science ordering, painstakingly constructed with the help of inscription devices.
The secret of science and technology is not some higher form of rationality, or a peculiar form of conceptual leap that in a magic split-second will allow scientific geniuses to discover the existence of a universal fact. Instead, the secret lies in the painstaking and creative efforts that go into scientists’ work of constantly relating countless different kinds of materials: machines, texts, people, animals, linguistic statements and so on. According to Latour, any serious attempt to understand the nature of science and technology, including their enormous effects on the world, must involve an anthropological approach.
