#Latour was a giant, an indelible inspiration for me among many, who will be sorely missed, as others are articulating much more eloquently. But for me the lists of favorite texts I’ve seen are not hitting the mark, so this version focuses differently (and on the early days).
1) Callon and #Latour (1982) “unscrewing the big leviathan,” long before Tsing a different way of thinking about the #scales of phenomena, actors, projects as growing and shrinking; realities growing and shrinking in the same process.
bruno-latour.fr/node/388
bruno-latour.fr/node/388
2) #Latour (1984) “the powers of association,” a performative definition of society as continuously remade. Strong resonances to Foucault’s microphysics of power but in more dynamical terms. #performativity #power bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/…
3) #Latour (1988) “the politics of explanation,” the implications of the fact that researchers performatively contribute to the realities they desribe. It is not that everything becomes discourse but that even texts contribute to worlds. #infrareflexivity
bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/…
bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/…
4) #Latour (1999) Pandora’s hope, #circulatingreference. Sciences neither represent objective facts nor socially construct realities. They generate realities by creating links that disregard the divide between things and words. Ex: bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/…. #partialexistence
5) Jumping far ahead, #criticalzones with Weibel, draws arts and sciences together to rethink livability in the Anthropocene. bruno-latour.fr/node/838.html; also my review on how to deal with #cosmoecological perplexities estsjournal.org/index.php/ests… #latour
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