By Henning Schmidgen
Bruno Latour stirs issues up. Latour all started as a lover of technological know-how and expertise, co-founder of actor-network thought, and thinker of a modernity that had "never been modern." meanwhile he's appeared not only as some of the most clever and in addition well known exponents of technological know-how stories but additionally as an incredible innovator of the social sciences, an exemplary wanderer who walks the road among the sciences and the humanities.
This publication presents the 1st complete evaluation of the Latourian oeuvre, from his early anthropological stories in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), to influential books like Laboratory existence and technological know-how in motion, and his most up-to-date reflections on an empirical metaphysics of "modes of existence." during this enquiry it turns into transparent that the elemental challenge to which Latour's paintings responds is that of social culture, the transmission of expertise and information. What this empirical thinker continually grapples with is the advanced courting of information, time, and culture.
Read or Download Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography PDF
Best cultural books
With 28 illustrations, this can be an anthropological research of Oceana, with chapters masking Polynesia, Melanesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, and Australia. "IN the subsequent pages we will search to give an summary of the mythology of the Oceanic peoples. even supposing sure elements of the mythic method of this region, in addition to the myths of separate parts of it, were taken care of through others, the current author doesn't understand of any contemporary endeavour to assemble all to be had fabrics from the full sector, or to debate the connection of the mythologies of many of the parts of Oceania to each other, and to the adjoining lands.
Workers, capital, and the state in British Columbia: selected papers
This number of essays bargains a entire exam of the operating classification adventure in British Columbia and comprises crucial heritage wisdom for an realizing of up to date family members among govt, labour, and staff. It treats staff’ courting to the province’s source base, the commercial function of the nation, the constitution of capitalism, the labour industry and the effect of ethnicity and race on classification family members.
Anthropological Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
A decade after the approval of the UNESCO 2003 conference for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural history (ICH), the idea that has received extensive attractiveness on the neighborhood, nationwide and foreign degrees. groups are spotting and celebrating their Intangible background; governments are devoting vital efforts to the development of nationwide inventories; and anthropologists and execs from varied disciplines are forming a brand new box of analysis.
Japanese Cultural Policies in Southeast Asia during World War 2
With the outstanding exception of the japanese software for teaching Southeast Asian scholars in Japan, the occupying forces didn't make an effect at the region's tradition. discovering themselves masters of an immense new empire, the japanese have been hampered by means of their lack of knowledge or appreciate for Southeast Asian languages and cultures, and as a result fell again on a coverage of 'Japanization' of the topic populations.
- German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse since 1990 (German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
- Anthropology: A Global Perspective
- Complexity And Co-Evolution: Continuity And Change In Socio-Economic Systems
- The Russian Second Generation in Tallinn and Kohtla-Järve: The TIES Study in Estonia
Additional resources for Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography
Example text
The study conducted by Latour and Shabou took place in an intellectual environment that had been influenced by the Ivory Coast expert Marc Augé. Since 1965 Augé had undertaken ethnological field trips in Ivory Coast, focusing particularly on the Alladian peoples, at that time numbering around ten thousand persons, who lived on the edge of a large lagoon to the west of Abidjan. Until 1970 Augé was the director of ORSTOM in Abi- Exegesis and Ethnology 21 djan, after which he took up a position at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
They had become acquainted at the first annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), founded by Robert K. Merton, in November 1976. At Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where the conference took place, the two young scholars had given presentations on the problems involved in the sociological analysis of scientific discourse. Latour spoke about citation counting as an important element in studying the “system of actions” of scientific papers, and Woolgar talked about the problems and possibilities of sociolog ical analyses of scientific accounts.
Kahn to develop an appropriate style of architecture. Kahn had risen to prominence with his futuristic new main building for the Yale University Art Gallery, and in the late 1950s his plans for the Richards Medical Research Laboratories building at the University of Pennsylvania achieved international acclaim. This design featured three towers containing laboratories connected with a central ser vice tower; the laboratories used by people, the “served spaces,” were separated from the “servant spaces,” which contained mechanical systems, lifts, animal quarters, etc.