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WAzRrrrr t1_irmrvjs wrote

Rip. May his memory continue to act in many networks for the long foreseeable future.

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Okaum t1_irmtxr7 wrote

RIP. We've lost an incredible mind and social scientist. Latour's 'Reassembling the Social' had a profound impact on me as a student of anthropology/sociology. Such sad news.

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apj0731 t1_irn1spe wrote

His worked played a huge role shaping my scholarship in my early career as an anthropologist.

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CraftyRole4567 t1_irn2cm3 wrote

RIP! Some of the more traditionalist professors in my graduate school could not even hear his name without beginning to shake and froth at the mouth like Cujo. He wrote some of the smartest and occasionally funniest work I read in graduate school, even if I had to do it in secret. Thank you for stretching my mind in all the directions, Bruno!

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EndofGods t1_irn59kv wrote

Godspeed and good luck on your next roll, Sir.

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Wingedball t1_irnc51c wrote

Anyone have a recommended book written by him?

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KamelLoeweKind t1_irndjdp wrote

RIP. I'd like to mention that with him also goes equally impressive thinker Jim Johnson.

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TaliesinMerlin t1_irnekxm wrote

He will be missed. Latour's book We Have Never Been Modern was enormously influential to me in graduate school, as someone interested in questions of periodization and how inconsistently "modern" has been defined.

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CooperSly t1_irnhgb6 wrote

A terrible loss. My main inspiration for getting into STS / climate change. RIP Bruno

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GeoglyphPsy t1_irnki50 wrote

Replying to Wingedball (#64,397)

Reassembling the Social is a fantastic introduction to Actor Network Theory that dispels a lot of misconceptions and clarifies a lot of points in a very readable way. Genuinely blew my mind as a sceptical, anti-bullshit grad student.

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wow-signal t1_iro2oxj wrote

emphasis on "sociologist"

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theoriginalwayout t1_iroexts wrote

Philosophize This just did an excellent episode on Bruno. RIP

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LittleMissShy_ t1_irolz9d wrote

Very sad news. The world has lost a great social scientist

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zedority t1_irox7r1 wrote

The best introduction to Bruno Latour as a philosopher wasn't written by him: it's the book Prince of Networks, by Graham Harman. Latour was never formally a philosopher, but his work was massively concerned with metaphysics all the same.

Harman described Latour as a "secular occasionalist". Occasionalist philosophers are concerned with how anything can interact with anything else (a much broader and, to Harman, a much more interesting question than how subject can interact with object, the question which has dominated Western philosophy since at least Kant). Occasionalism sees all substances as radically isolated from each other - but then have to posit a special exception to the rule of separation, like "God" (in classical Islamic occasionalism) or "eternal objects" (A.N. Whitehead's more recent occasionalism).

Latour dispenses with any special substance in occasionalist philosophy by positing that anything can potentially take on the role of mediating bridge between anything else. Harman doesn't view this as a perfect solution to all the problems of philosophies of occasionalism by any means, but he views at as innovative step, worth pursuing further, which for Harman entailed the development of a version of "object-oriented ontology" - but this post is about Latour as a philosopher, so I'll stop now.

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Icypalmtree t1_irppm8p wrote

#Science in Action. Not mentioned. Definitely deserved to be.

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bedasp t1_irq2k9q wrote

“He is the author (alone or in collaboration) of works such as The factory of law. An ethnography of the Council of State, The Life of laboratory, We were never modern, The Microbes. War and peace (on Louis Pasteur) and the last Where am I? written in the midst of the Covid crisis.”

His last book at 74 was titled “Where am I?”. Idc who you are that is kind of fucking hilarious.

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gnf00x t1_irqbnyv wrote

Replying to Magmanamuz (#68,301)

came back to say this (great epsiode!) and that there's also a recent two part interview with him on ARTE

https://youtu.be/sYfwkTgEpmE

In a highly detailed interview, renowned French philosopher and political scientist Bruno Latour sets out his thoughts on the climate crisis as well as his own philosophy. Interview with Bruno Latour (1/2) ARTE.tv #Documentary Available until the 15/05/2023

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