http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/taxonomy/term/48 fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/95 Actor-Network-Theory Semiotics & Literature Studies Social Theory Viualization <p>A photographic enquiry into social theory about the city of Paris with special attention to its technical &laquo;oligoptica &raquo;, a concept necessary to replace that of &laquo; panoptica &raquo;. With a very experimental layout (see <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/343" rel="nofollow">Mixed Media</a> section to live through the experience).</p> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:01:23 +0000 admin 95 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/140 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/140" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Compositionism Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>In this paper, written in the outmoded style of a “manifesto”, an attempt is made to use the word “composition” as an alternative to critique and “compositionism” as an alternative to modernism. The idea is that once the two organizing principles of nature and society are gone, one of the remaining solutions is to “compose” the common world.</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:09:17 +0000 admin 140 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/156 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/156" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Philosophy Semiotics & Literature Studies Technology Viualization <p>Netz’s book is, without question, the most important work in science studies since Shapin &amp; Schaffer Leviathan and the Air Pump. By resorting to a very original semiotic and constructivist method, it manages to redescribe entirely the practice of deduction in the beginning of Greek geometry. It shows how this practice bears almost no connection with the various theories of abstraction and conviction that have been offered by philosophers from Plato onwards. It offers the first systematic non-formalist description of formalism at its early historical stage.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:03:32 +0000 admin 156 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/163 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/163" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Digital Humanities Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>The shift from first to second empiricism, requires a new way of handling the empiricism of ‘things’ instead of the empiricism of ‘objects’. To acquire the proper litterary resources to do so, it’s useful to turn toward the great American Richard Powers and lift out of its novels some of the tool to present again the connections between characters and technical or scientific entities. But the task is even more interesting when those resources are then used to read again a classic of scientific litterature, in this case Alan Turing famous article from the 50s where he imagines his famous test.</p> Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:00:06 +0000 admin 163 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/190 Philosophy Politics Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>A detailed analysis of Plato’s Gorgias allows to see how the famous debate between Might and Right has been rigged, since Socrates and Callicles agree on everything against the people of Athens. But then, once the moral red herring has been pushed aside, it is still possible to see in the dialog the traces of the conditions of felicity proper to politics and ignored by Socrates’ appeal to Reason as well as by Callicles’ appeal to Force. The Body Politic made impossible by their settlement, can be made possible again as soon as other definitions of science and politics are provided.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:21:23 +0000 admin 190 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/226 Epistemology Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>The philosophical problem of an history of objects, and not only of the history of the « discovery” of an object is tackled in this theoretical article that uses an empirical example -an article by Pasteur- and Whithead’s philosophy. It explores on which conditions, according to Whithead, it would be possible to overcome the limits of « social” explanations of realism without falling back on the realism of the past.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0000 admin 226 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/227 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/227" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Digital Humanities Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>This paper tries to understand what has changed in social theory, because of the development of information technology in work sites and because of the analysis of sociologists, specialists of labor relations, of organizations, of situated cognition, etc. It starts with a simple example of practice and tries to analyze it by following new concepts which seems to derive from the redistribution of humans and non-humans due to the pervasiveness of computerized work sites.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:33:56 +0000 admin 227 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/255 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/255" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Modes of Existence Semiotics & Literature Studies Sociology of Science Viualization Epistémologie Modes d'existence Visualisation <p>A gauche une grande savane, à droite la lisière abrupte d’une épaisse forêt. On dirait que des paysans ont créé ce partage entre deux mondes, l’un sec et vide, l’autre humide et plein, par la hache et la scie. Pourtant personne n’a jamais cultivé ces terres. Aucun cordeau n’a jamais servi à tracer la lisière qui s’étend sur des centaines de kilomètres. Si la savane sert bien de pâturages aux boeufs d’un latifundiste, elle s’arrête naturellement aux limites de la forêt que ne borne aucune barrière artificielle.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:14:08 +0000 admin 255 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/257 History of Science Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>A semiotic study of one article by Pasteur in order to elicit from the text the many philosophies and sociologies of science mobilized in the narration. Semiotics is used to show how non-humans can be analyzed in details and how the text as event can then be connected to historical explanations.<br /> A more complete analysis in a draft form, is accessible <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/downloads/SUMMER%20SCHOOL-LACTIC-ACID-GB.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:23:19 +0000 admin 257 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/258 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/fr/node/258" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> Actor-Network-Theory Semiotics & Literature Studies Technology <p>According to some physicists there is not enough mass in the universe to balance the accounts that cosmologists make of it. They are looking everywhere for the “missing mass” that could add up to the nice expected total. It is the same with sociologists. They are constantly looking, somewhat desperately, for social links sturdy enough to tie all of us together or for moral laws that would be inflexible enough to make us behave properly. When adding up social ties it does not balance. Soft human and weak moralities are all sociologists can get.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:34:31 +0000 admin 258 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr