Bruno Latour (1947-)
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Latour as educator
What was exemplary in Latour's life?
- What can a reader learn from and through the life experience Latour had?
- What effects for good and ill may his life and work have on someone who takes him as an exemplary figure?
- What were the limiting factors constraining him?
Latour's ideas and their formative power
- What are the key concepts, the ideas that Latour developed in his work?
- What was the formative power these concepts offered Latour's contemporaries? Why did they have meaning, or fail to have meaning, to others in the historical context of his time?
- What formative power do his ideas have in the historical context of our time? Of any time?
- What disabilities might his ideas impart?
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[edit] Latour's life
Bruno Latour is a scholar whose work falls into the domain of "science studies." He has been a major developer of Actor-Network Theory.
Latour's argument, across a number of his works, has been that scholars must keep objects, people, and meaning in view at the same time in order to understand them properly. A number of students and faculty in CCTE and related departments have found this approach particularly useful in understanding the power and construction of media, which inevitably involve all three aspects. See the associated talk page for current discussion among students and faculty exploring and making use of his work.
[edit] Latour's work
[edit] Science in Action
[edit] We Have Never Been Modern
[edit] Pandora's Hope
[edit] Reassembling the Social
[edit] The Politics of Nature, Summer '08 Reading Group
See Summer '08 Reading Group Notes
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Latour, B. (2005). Reassembling the social: An introduction to actor-network-theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Latour, B., & Weibel, P. (2005). Making things public: Atmospheres of democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Latour, B. (2004). Politics of nature : how to bring the sciences into democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Latour, B. (1996). Aramis, or, The love of technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Latour, B. (1993). We have never been modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Latour, B. (1988). The pasteurization of France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Latour, B. (1987). Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1986). Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
[edit] External Links
English Wikipedia page on Latour
