Durkheim may be right, but so is Harold Garfinkel. Perhaps the solution, in keeping with the generative principle of my genealogy, is to look for nonhumans. (This explicit principle is : look for nonhumans when the emergence of a social feature is inexplicable; look to the state of social relations when a new and inexplicable type of object enters the […]
“When the sage points at the Moon,” says the Chinese proverb, “the fool looks at his fingertip.” Well, we [social scientists] have all educated ourselves to be fools! This is our deontology. This is what a social scientist learns at school, mocking the unwashed who naively believe in the Moon. We know that when actors speak about the Virgin Mary, […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1994. Jamais fomos modernos: ensaio de antropologia simétrica. (trad. Carlos Irineu da Costa) Rio de Janeiro: Ed.34. [1991] O PROBLEMA DO HUMANISMO MODERNO A modernidade é muitas vezes definida através do humanismo, seja para saudar o nascimento do homem, seja para anunciar sua morte. Mas o próprio hábito é moderno, uma vez que este continua sendo assimétrico. Esquece […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1999. Glossary. In: Pandora’s hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp.303-11. ACTOR, ACTANT: The great interest of science studies is that it offers, through the study of laboratory practice, many cases of the emergence of an actor. Instead of starting with entities that are already components of the world, science studies focuses […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1999. Pandora’s hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ESTUDOS de CIÊNCIA MOSTRAM a VIDA DOS NÃO-HUMANOS no COLETIVO If science studies has achieved anything, I thought, surely it has added reality to science, not withdrawn any from it. Instead of the stuffed scientists hanging on the walls of the armchair philosophers of […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor-network theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. NONHUMAN AGENCY as ANT TEST Although there is no clear litmus test for ANT membership, some ad hoc and make- shift ones may be devised. […] One of them is the precise role granted to non-humans. They have to be actors […] and not simply […]
Em Permanent record, Edward Snowden reitera: All you wanted to do was to read — to take part in that most intensely intimate human act, the joining of minds through language. But that was more than enough. Your natural desire to connect with the world was all the world needed to connect your living, breathing self to a series of […]
[Este post é uma versão editada de uma seção de Ferreira (2017)] Latour foi um dos poucos cientistas sociais contemporâneos que pensaram seriamente o processo de reticulação nos coletivos humanos. A ação-rede latouriana pode ser entendida como uma “uma grande rede, em forma de estrela, de mediadores que entram e saem dela” e que “existe em função de seus laços” […]
No texto “A crise sanitária incentiva a nos prepararmos para as mudanças climáticas”, publicado no Le Monde em 25/03/2020, Bruno Latour fez coro ao vírus francês e afirmou que “[p]ela primeira vez depois de anos, milhões de pessoas, trancadas em casa, reencontram este luxo esquecido: o tempo para refletir e discernir sobre o que geralmente os faz se mover inutilmente […]
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