http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/taxonomy/term/12 fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/4 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/4" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology <p>Belief is not a state of mind, but a result of the relationships between peoples; this has been known since Montaigne. The visitor knows, the visited believes; or quite the opposite, the visitor knew, the visited makes him understand that he only thought he knew. Let us apply this principle to the case of the Moderns. Everywhere they drop anchor they soon put up fetishes, that is to say that in all the peoples they encounter, they see worshippers of objects that are nothing.</p> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:26:16 +0000 admin1 4 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/48 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/48" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology Gabriel Tarde <p>Supposons que Karl Marx ait publié LE CAPITAL et que personne n’y ait prêté attention. Un siècle après on redécouvrirait ce livre et l’on resterait stupéfait devant l’ampleur et l’audace d’une œuvre isolée, incomprise, sans effets scientifiques, politiques, sociaux ; une œuvre que n’auraient développée ni disciple, ni exégèse, que ne serait venu transformer aucun essai plus ou moins malencontreux d’application. Comme l’histoire du 20° siècle aurait été différente si le bréviaire des hommes d’action eût été le livre de Tarde, PSYCHOLOGIE ÉCONOMIQUE, paru en 1902, au lieu de celui de Marx !</p> Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:04:27 +0000 admin1 48 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/145 Actor-Network-Theory Design Ecology & Political Ecology <p>A joint lecture with Peter Sloterdijk to explore the two concepts of “sphere » and of “network”, the paper (in line with 112) shows that there is only an apparent contradiction between the two concepts, contradiction that is maintained only as long as the nature/society trope is maintained. Both concepts act as an alternative definition of space and, although they seem to restrict the expansion of modernism concepts (especially nature), they are in effect the only way to find rooms for the artificial and material conditions of an ecological space.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:57:56 +0000 admin 145 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/153 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/153" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology <p>Nordhaus and Shellenberger’s book has somewhat infuriated their fellow conservationists, but it tackles just the right set of philosophical questions about the psycho social limis to be put on the notions of limits to growth and to development. The paper follows the authors in their exploration of the right set of political passions necessary to extract political ecology from its obsession with nature.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:54:10 +0000 admin 153 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/158 Ecology & Political Ecology <p>The extension of ecological crisis have also extended the need for a politics of science. To the point where the distinction between ‘natural’ and ‘social’ sciences has become moot : it might be more rewarding to direct our attention to ‘earthly sciences’ (not to be confused wiht ‘Earth science’).</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:08:18 +0000 admin 158 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/189 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/189" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology Politics <p>This paper explores the destiny of political ecology. It is very much influenced by the French political situation and the continuing marginality of the various Green parties. It relies on three different strands. First a very interesting model to understand political disputes devised by two French sociologists, Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot in a book that is not yet available in English (Boltanski &amp; Thévenot 1991). Second, a case study by the author on the recent creation by law of what could be called “local parliaments of water” (Latour &amp; Le Bourhis 1995).</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:18:19 +0000 admin 189 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/209 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/209" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Anthropology Ecology & Political Ecology Social Theory <p>Cosmopolitism is one of the great traditions in political philosophy, human rights and international law. There is however, a much more recent and small interest in cosmo-politics, as exemplified by Isabelle Stengers’ philosophy. In the first one, the cosmos –assimilated with nature- is taken for granted and politics is taken as meaning international or global. In the other tradition, however, cosmos and its potential unity is precisely what is up for grabs. The paper comments Ulrich Beck’s lead article and increases the contrast between the two.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:15:25 +0000 admin 209 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/372 Ecology & Political Ecology <p>We are all familiar with the notion of rules of methods which have been devised for scientific experiments. What I have chosen to explore is a rather new question who has only recently come to the foreground of public consciousness : namely, collective experiments. What are those collective or what could be called ‘socio-technical’ experiments ? Are they run in a totally wild manner with no rules at all ?</p> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:55:37 +0000 admin 372 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/446 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/446" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology <p>Initially written as a lecture at the French Institute for the lauching of SPEAP in London, in November 2011.</p> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:39:36 +0000 admin 446 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/479 Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology Religion Studies Compositionnisme <p>In the framework of the Gifford Lectures, BL will give six lectures on what the new entity called Gaia - a complex mixture of mythical, spiritual and scientific characters - does to the political philosophy of nature and how its strange set of characters could shift the conversation of "science and religion" toward new territory.</p> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:45:50 +0000 admin 479 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr