Top 22 Bruno Latour Quotes
#1. The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
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#3. Alas, the historical name is 'actor-network-theory', a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.
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#4. Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.
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#5. I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.
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#7. Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces
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#8. What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning.
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#9. The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms
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#10. And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time
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#11. You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.
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#12. Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
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#13. Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
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#14. India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
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#15. Nancy Cartwright here in this School has written the funniest paper on scientific method ever, by taking the average advice from all the books about scientific method, and they are extreme banalities
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#16. The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
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#17. We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
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#19. If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
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#20. In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the 'Glorious Alliance' between France and Mary Queen of Scots, which explains why Scotland should not share the rabid Europhobia of Englishmen.
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#21. My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.
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#22. Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.
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