4 Quotes & Sayings By Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour is a French academic and social scientist. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris VIII, and Director of the Laboratory for Actor-Network Theory at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), a position he has held since 1994. He is also a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Since 1991, he has been a professor at Sciences Po in Paris Read more

He is the author of numerous books on science and society, including Pandora's Hope: Essays on Belief, Culture and Development (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), which won the 2003 Léon Walras Prize from the European Science Foundation, and The Pasteurization of France: The Rise and Fall of a Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007).

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In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the ‘Glorious Alliance’ between France and Mary Queen of Scots, which explains why Scotland should not share the rabid Europhobia of Englishmen. Bruno Latour
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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
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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this. Bruno Latour