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Bruno Latour, born in 1947 in Beaune, Burgundy, from a wine grower family, was trained first as a philosopher and then an anthropologist. From 1982 to 2006, he has been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'Innovation at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the history of science department of Harvard University.

He is now professor at Sciences Po Paris where he is also the vice-president for research of that school.

After field studies in Africa and California he specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management. He has written Laboratory Life (Princeton University Press), Science in Action, and The Pasteurization of France. He also published a field study on an automatic subway system Aramis or the love of technology and an essay on symmetric anthropology We have never been modern. He has also gathered a series of essays, Pandora's Hope:Essays in the Reality of Science Studies to explore the consequences of the " science wars". After having directed several thesis on various environmental crisis, he published a book on the political philosophy of the environment Politics of Nature (all of those books are with Harvard University Press and have been translated in many languages).

In a series of books in French, he has been exploring the consequences of science studies on different traditional topics of the social sciences: religion in Sur le culte moderne des dieux faitiches (to be published in English) , and Jubiler ou les tourments de la parole religieuse, and social theory in Paris ville invisible, a photographic essay on the technical & social aspects of the city of Paris (now available on the web in English Paris Invisible City). After a long field work on one of the French supreme Courts, he has recently published a monograph la Fabrique du droit-une ethnographie du Conseil d'Etat (to be published in English). A new presentation of the social theory which he has developped with his colleagues in Paris is available at Oxford University Press, under the title: Reassembling the Social, an Introduction to Actor Network Theory.

After having curated a major international exhibition in Karlsruhe at the ZKM center, Iconoclash beyond the image wars in science, religion and art, he has curated another one also with Peter Weibel Making Things Public The atmospheres of democracy which has closed in October 2005 (both catalogues are with MIT Press).

Awards and Honors:
1992: Bernal Prize awarded by the 4S Society.
1992: Prix Roberval du Livre et de la Communication grand public (for Aramis ou l’amour des techniques).
1996: Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Lund, Sweden.
2005: Spinoza Chair, University of Amsterdam, Spring 2005.
2006: Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Lausanne.
2007: A one week international meeting held in Cerisy at the occasion of his 60th birthday.
2008: Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Montreal.
2008: Medal of Honor Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna.
2008: Elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass.
2008: Recipient of the Siegfried Unseld Prize for his life achievements (Frankfurt).
2008: Doctor Honoris causa of the University of Goteborg.
2009: Doctor Honoris causa of the University of Warwick.

BOOKS ABOUT BL's WORK
Georg Kneer, Markus Schroer and Erhard Schüttpelz, Bruno Latours Kollektive. Kontroversen zur Entgrenzung des Sozialen, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (2007)
Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics, de-press (2009).
Reiner Ruffing, Bruno Latour, UTB Profile, Stuttgart (2009).
Arno Bammé, Wissenschaft im Wandel. Bruno Latour als Symptom, Metropolis, (2008)

SELECTED IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS
1993: « Interview avec Bruno Latour » interview by Hugh Crawford in Configurations Vol. 1 n°2 pp.247-269.
1995: « De l’acteur-réseau au parlement des choses », in M (Mensuel, marxiste, mouvement) numéro 75 spécial sur Sciences, Cultures, Pouvoirs (interview J. C. Gaudillère). pp.31-38.
1997: avec Finn Olsen en danois (in Danish) in Philosophia Vol. 25, n° 3 et 4, pp.267-287.
1997: avec Gustav Rozler en allemand (in German) "Ein neuer Empirismus, ein neuer Realismus", Bruno Latour im Gespräch mit Gustav Roßler, Mittelweg 36, 6. Jahrgang, février-mars 1997.
2000 : « A Contract with Nature » interview with Shin’ichi Nakazawa, [English and Japanese translation] in Coucou No Tchi n°2, pp.190-211 (with an introduction by Kazuhiko Yatabe).
2003 : « Interview with Bruno Latour’ » In Chasing Technoscience. Matrix for Materiality (Eds, Ihde, D. and Selinger, E.) Indiana University Press, Bloomingon, pp. 15-26.
2004 : « The Social as Association » in Nicholas Gane (editor) The Future of Social Theory, Continuum, London, pp. 77-90.
2004 : « Interview with Bruno Latour: Debriefing the Collective Experiment » 16-17 April 2004 By Maria J. Prieto and Elise S. Youn (http://agglutinations.com/archives/000040.html).
2004 : « Por Uma Antropologia do Centro » Entretien avec Renato Sztutman et Stelio Maras en portugais (in Portuguese) Mana vol. 10 n°2 2004 pp. 397-414.
2005 : « There is no Terrestrial Globe », interview by Jean-Christophe Royoux in. (2005). Cosmograms. (Eds, Ohanian, M. and Royoux, J. C.) New York: Lukas and Sternberg, 211-222.
2005 : « Haciendo la res publica » entretien avec interview with Tomás Sánchez-Criado. Publicado en AIBR. Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, Ed. Electrónica Núm. Especial. Noviembre-Diciembre 2005 Madrid: Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red.
2006: Chrisian S. G Katti "Mediating Political 'Things' and the Forked tongue of Modern Culture" A conversation with Bruno Latour, ArtJournal Vol. 65 n°1 pp.94-115 Spring 2006.
2006: « Entretien » réalisé par Arnaud Fossier et Edouard Gardella in Tracés (revue ENS Cachan) n°10 pp. 113-130.
2008 : « Cosmopolitique de la science » in Aliocha Wald Lasowski (sous la direction de) Pensées pour le nouveau siècle, Fayard, pp. 107-130.
2008: "Per un etnografia dei moderni - intervista con Bruno Latour », in Etnografia et ricerca qualitativa, Societa éditrice il Molino, Bologna, 2008/3.