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Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two)

December 2, 2019 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

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Continuing on Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with guest Lynda Olman.

Latour is challenging the idea of objective truth totally apart from perceivers; so is he an idealist? He claims that he is not; he's not even a strong social constructionist. We lay out the "Constitution" of modernity that keeps science and politics separate, how this way of thinking about things makes it difficult for us to address issues like climate change, and we get into Latour's positive account for what should replace this Constitution.

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  1. dmf says

    December 3, 2019 at 2:52 pm

    so we assemble tools (vocabularies, algorithms, hammer, microscopes, etc) that allow us to manipulate our environments in ways that more or less suit us, meet and shape our interests, no more no less…

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  2. GL Rosa says

    December 5, 2019 at 1:34 am

    Re: anti-enlightenment thinking, John Gray would make an excellent guest:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_(philosopher)

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