Posts tagged BrunoLatourAIME

Remember when it was hard to accept that non-humans, like microbes, could be full fledged actors -actants rather- able to build up associations in addition to those more classically “social”? Now it’s common sense: here is Chinese pollution with or without virus. (Huffingtonpost) pic.twitter.com/5cxpcbeA1C

— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) March 2, 2020

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If you believe Australians will change their attitude because of the catastrophe, read first Ian Kirshaw “The End” on the last year of the war 1945: everyone knows the Reich is doomed, yet they stick to the regime until the 1st US tanks enter their town. Except this time, no US!

— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) January 26, 2020

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Yes anthropocene does not specify which humans are responsible, but its task is different: it has to be defined as a stratigraphic term for geologists, no more, no less. Let each of the proponents of the 110 other alternative terms in -cene to be as precise in meaning & audience.

— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) June 17, 2019

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Congratulations to Richard Powers for being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his amazing book “The Overstory” a most sophisticated redistribution of agency between trees and people yet understandable by any body attuned to novels. A sign of time if any.

— BrunoLatour (@BrunoLatourAIME) April 17, 2019

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