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 Continue Reading …
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One)
On Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with guest Lynda Olman. What's the "modern" ideology of science, and is there something we should critique about it? Latour wants us to think about science not abstractly through the eternal truths it supposedly discovers, but through the concrete practices of scientists. This means acknowledging the phenomenology of science: It Continue Reading …
Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Citizen Edition)
On Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with guest Lynda Olman. What's the "modern" ideology of science, and is there something we should critique about it? Latour wants us to think about science not abstractly through the eternal truths it supposedly discovers, but through the concrete practices of scientists. This means acknowledging the phenomenology of science: It Continue Reading …