Description:
In this groundbreaking editorial and curatorial project, more than 100 writers, artists, and philosophers rethink what politics is about. In a time of political turmoil and anticlimax, this book redefines politics as operating in the realm of things
(pdf of the out of print catalog).
Politics is not just an arena, a profession, or a system, but a concern...
Books & Edited Volumes
Date: 2005 [edited by Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel]
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Language: English
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Date: 2009
Publisher: Polity Press, Cambridge
Translator(s): Marina Brilman et al.
Language: English
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La Fabbrica del Diritto. Etnografia del Consiglio di Stato
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A Fábrica do direito. Uma etnografia do Conselho de Estado
Description:
An ethnography of the French supreme court in administrative law, the Conseil d'Etat, has been pursued between 1994 and 1999. This book is the account of this field work attempting to make a thick description of the work of judges as they come to an agreement about files. The book represents a sort of Laboratory life’ of judges at work and tries to compare...
Date: 2002 [Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel]
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Language: English
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Description:
This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Center for New Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, invokes three disparate realms in which images have assumed the role of cultural weapons. Monotheistic religions, scientific theories, and contemporary arts have struggled with the contradictory urge to produce and also destroy images and emblems...
Date: June 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Translator(s): Julie Rose
Language: English
ISBN: 9780745660066
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Description:
Rejoicing – or the torments of religious speech: that is what he wants to talk about, that is what he can’t actually seem to talk about: it’s as though the cat had got his tongue; as though he was spoilt for choice when it comes to words; as though it was impossible to articulate; he can’t actually seem to share what, for so long, he has held so dear to his...
Date: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Translator(s): Catherine Porter
Language: English
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Politiques de la nature. Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie
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Politiche della natura. Per una democrazia dele scienze
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Politicas da natureza. Como fazer ciência na democracia,
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Politicas de la naturaleza. Po una democracia de las ciencias
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A political philosophy enquiry into the limits of political ecology. If nature is not a part of reality but a Constitutional arrangment to make political life impossible, what would a politics be without nature ? If this question is raised then it becomes obvious that the various green movements are not modifying the modernist project but giving it, on the...
Date: 2006 [with Emilie Hermant]
Translator(s): Liz Carey-Libbrecht
Language: English
Virtual Book: Paris: Invisible City Online
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Paris Ciudad Invisible
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Parigi citta' invisible
Description:
A photographic enquiry into social theory about the city of Paris with special attention to its technical «oligoptica », a concept necessary to replace that of « panoptica ». With a very experimental layout (see Mixed Media section to live through the experience).
Date: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Language: English
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L’espoir de Pandore. Pour une version réaliste de l’activité scientifique
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Die Hoffnung der Pandora
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La esperanza de Pandora. Essayos Sobre la relidad de lo estudios de la ciencia
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A Esperança de Pandora. Ensaiois sobre a relidade dos estudos cientificos
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A philosophical answer to the science war debates with special emphasis on the new type of realism which has emerged, in spite of the claims to the contrary, from science studies. A complete rewriting of the following papers: (39), (51), (54), (62), (65), (68), (70), (71)
Date: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Translator(s): Catherine Porter
Language: English
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Aramis ou l'amour des techniques
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Aramis is a very high tech automated subway that was developped in France during the 80s; after its sudden demise, an investigation has been requested in the reasons of this failure; the book is the scenography of this enquiry that aims at understanding what happened to Aramis, at training readers in the booming field of technology studies and at...
Date: 1993, revised and augmented English translation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster (England), Harvard University Press (United States)
Translator(s): Catherine Porter
Language: English
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Jamais Fomos Modernos
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Mes niekada nebuvome Modernus, Simetrines antropologijos esé
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Emme ole koskaan, olleet moderneja
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Biz Hic Modern Olmadik
Description:
If science studies is right in erasing the divide between nature and society, it remains true that the readers of those work still maintain a strict dichotomy that renders them unable to register what they read in any another position than the alternative of social construction versus realism. The book explores the possible philosophical origin of this...
Date: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass.
Language: English
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La Science en action
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Ciencia En Accion
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La scienza in azione – Introduzione alla sociologia della scienza
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Ciência em Açao. Como seguir cientistas e engenheiros sociedade afora
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Written for a large public interested in renewing the understanding of scientific practice and its connection with the rest of society this book uses anecdotes, case studies, examples from many different periods and disciplines, to define rules of methods which can be used in following scientists around; the key role is given to non-humans, that is to...
