"Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated--a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a climate scientist challenged by a captain of industry to appeal to the institution of science, with its army of researchers and mountai ..."
Down to Earth(1st Edition) Politics in the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour, Catherine Porter Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2018 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3057-1, ISBN: 1-5095-3057-6
"The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive ..."
Facing Gaia(1st Edition) Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour, Catherine Porter Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2017 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8434-5, ISBN: 0-7456-8434-3
"The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is ..."
Facing Gaia(1st Edition) Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2017 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8433-8, ISBN: 0-7456-8433-5
"The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is ..."
Down to Earth(1st Edition) Politics in the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour Hardcover, 140 Pages, Published 2018 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3056-4, ISBN: 1-5095-3056-8
"The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive ..."
"Investigating the entanglement of industry, politics, culture, and economics at the frontier of ocean excavations through an innovative union of art and science.The oceans are crucial to the planet's well-being. They help regulate the global carbon cycle, support the resilience of ecosystems, and provide livelihoods for communities. The oceans as guardians of planetary health are threatened by many forces, including growing extractivist ..."
"Modernity has had so many meanings and combines so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the future. It crashes like an overloaded computer. Hence the idea is that modernity might need a sort of reset. Not a clean break, not a "tabula rasa," not another iconoclastic gesture, but rather a restart of the c ..."
"Alfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengers―one of today’s leading philosophers of science―goes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead’s thought. The product of thirty years’ engagement with the mathematician-philosopher’s entire canon, this volume establi ..."
Down to Earth Politics in the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour 140 Pages, Published 2018 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3059-5, ISBN: 1-5095-3059-2
"This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national."
Rejoicing Or the Torments of Religious Speech by BrunoLatour 200 Pages, Published 2018 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7886-3, ISBN: 0-7456-7886-6
"According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on science, on technology and, more recently, on law, this book explores the truth conditions of religious speech acts."
Facing Gaia Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour 300 Pages, Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8437-6, ISBN: 0-7456-8437-8
"Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime Bruno Latour. address a partly
different audience every time. That is why each of ... Still, it would be unfair not to
cite first and foremost the members of the Gifford Lecture committee, who allowed
me to address the theme of “natural religion,” without forgetting the audience in
the Santa Cecilia Room during those six marvelous days in February 2013 in sun
-drenched Edinburgh. It is thank ..."
Facing Gaia Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by BrunoLatour 300 Pages, Published 2017 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-8435-2, ISBN: 0-7456-8435-1
"... 2011; Virginie Masson-Delmotte, Climat: le vrai et le faux, 2011), but in vain:
they are heard only as taking sides, something that is new for them. Even the
reports of the IPCC have not succeeded in closing the debate as far as the public
is concerned. 44We shall come back to the impossibility of distinguishing
between facts and values in the next lecture, and also in the fourth, where I shall
introduce the notion of the Anthr ..."
"“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the ForewordIs it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex rel ..."
"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
"The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Volume 34 features lectures given during the academic year 2013 to 2014 at ..."
Rejoicing Or the Torments of Religious Speech by BrunoLatour 200 Pages, Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7133-8, ISBN: 0-7456-7133-0
"According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on science, on technology and, more recently, on law, this book explores the truth conditions of religious speech acts."
" "In a prodigious inversion of Plato's Allegory of the Cave, May brings us all back into the darkness, where we are occupied looking at screens, except now there is no way to go from the appearances to their hidden reality...The message from the Cloud is clear: 'Thou shall get only images.'" --Bruno Latour (from the Foreword) Architecture today is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. We can feel our images ..."
Ontological Catastrophe Zizek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism (New Metaphysics) by Joseph Carew, Graham Harman, BrunoLatour Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 2014 by Michigan Publishing, University Of Michigan Library ISBN-13: 978-1-60785-308-4, ISBN: 1-60785-308-6
"In Ontological Catastrophe, Joseph Carew takes up the central question guiding Slavoj Žižek's philosophy: How could something like phenomenal reality emerge out of the meaninglessness of the Real? Carefully reconstructing and expanding upon his controversial reactualization of German Idealism, Carew argues that Žižek offers us an original, but perhaps terrifying, response: experience is possible only if we presuppose a prior moment of b ..."
"Classic texts by thinkers from Althusser to Žižek alongside essays by leaders in interaction design and HCI show the relevance of critical theory to interaction design. Why should interaction designers read critical theory? Critical theory is proving unexpectedly relevant to media and technology studies. The editors of this volume argue that reading critical theory -- understood in the broadest sense, including but not limited to the Fr ..."
"We are living through a period of dramatic political change ? Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ago, a world that seems to many to be a ..."