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Bruno Latour in pieces : an intellectual biography /

Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory and philosopher of a modernity that had "never been modern." In the meantime, he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent and also popular exponents of science stu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmidgen, Henning
Other Authors: Custance, Gloria (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of Bruno Latour zur Einführung.
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Series:Forms of living.
Subjects:
Latour, Bruno.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Science > Social aspects.
Actor-network theory.
Social networks.
SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works
  • Introduction
  • 1. Exegesis and Ethnology
  • Studies in Dijon
  • Péguy's Inscriptions
  • The Problem of Repetition
  • Exegeses, Re-readings, Revisions
  • Ideology
  • The Production of Lack
  • 2. The Philosopher in the Laboratory
  • At the Salk Institute
  • Laboratory Reports
  • Guillemin's History
  • High-tech, the Beach, and the Post-structuralists
  • Science as an Agonistic Field
  • The Rhetoric of Science
  • 3. Machines of Tradition
  • Laboratory Life
  • Desks versus Machines
  • History and Construction
  • Take from Science the Idea of Science?
  • 4. Pandora and the History of Modernity
  • Pandora Years
  • The Pasteur Project
  • "Give me a laboratory"
  • Sociology and Bacteriology
  • 5. Of Actants, Forces, and Things
  • Actors and Actants
  • The Politics of Knowledge
  • Irreductionism
  • Interlude with Comte
  • A History of Things
  • 6. Science and Action
  • An Anthropology of Science
  • In the Hinterland of the Texts
  • Great Divides, Large Networks
  • From "Immutable Mobiles" to "Centres of Calculation"
  • Media Studies
  • 7. Questions Concerning Technology
  • The Exegesis of Modernity
  • The Turn to Technology
  • Have We Never Been Post-Modern?
  • Technology
  • A Mode of Existence
  • The Agonistic Field Strikes Back
  • The Crisis of the Networks
  • 8. The Coming Parliament
  • Assembling
  • Rejoicing
  • Judging
  • Walking
  • Liquefying
  • Summarizing
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Timeline.