Bruno Latour quotes

Bruno Latour quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.”
-- Bruno Latour

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“My kingdom for a more embodied body”
-- Bruno Latour

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“The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.”
-- Bruno Latour

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“Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.”
-- Bruno Latour

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“My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.”
-- Bruno Latour

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“You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.”
-- Bruno Latour

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“Reality is what resists.”
-- Bruno Latour

#Reality Quotes
“If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.”
-- Bruno Latour

#Looks Quotes #Way Quotes #Newton Quotes
“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms”
-- Bruno Latour

Source : Bruno Latour (2005). “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, p.245, Oxford University Press

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“I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.”
-- Bruno Latour

#Spiritual Quotes #Technology Quotes #Analysis Quotes
“Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them”
-- Bruno Latour

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