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Oct 9 8 tweets 6 min read
RIP #BrunoLatour:
"We need a term, an invocation rather, that designates the state of dependence rather than emancipation and the plan to repair conditions of habitability that have been devastated."
ht @picharbonnier who brought together his last article geopolitique.eu/en/articles/is…
2/"Being a child of the baby boom, I spent my life feeling the threat of nuclear holocaust and without any transition, I have moved on to the threat of ecological collapse. I will therefore not analyze the arrival of war in Ukraine as a breakdown of peace"
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3/ RIP #BrunoLatour. His last essay on the "ecology of war" is haunting.
geopolitique.eu/en/articles/is… Image
4/ RIP Bruno Latour. His question “What new Thirty Years’ War” are we preparing for?

Tooze's dialogue with Latour on the new climate power politics #GeopoliticsOfGHGs #WarEcology e-flux.com/journal/114/36…
5/ my first introduction to Latour was in a physics class where we mocked him (read the wickedly funny Sokal hoax article about the gibberish of social constructionists ). Read him on nature-society divide much later physics.nyu.edu/sokal/afterwor…
6/ Latour's influence runs deep in 'Science and Technology Studies' (STS), and has enriched our understanding of how science & scientists work.

Sokal on the five issues that much work on STS & Latourian nature-science divide mix up. physics.nyu.edu/sokal/afterwor… Image
7/ RIP #BrunoLatour:
"Drugs, sex, cybernetics, the conquest of space, the Vietnam War, computers, and the nuclear threat: this is the matrix from which Gaia [hypothesis] was born, in violence, artifice, and war."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/bruno-…
8/ RIP #BrunoLatour
His last text notes the striking fact that the most populous nations of the world are not directly participating in G7 sanctions.

Latour then argues that Europe & the West must find a new modernization project with the Global south. geopolitique.eu/en/articles/is… Image

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