http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/lectures en http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/891 <p>BL was asked to reminisce about the argument first proposed in 1989 on a possible « Parliament of Things ». Thirty years later, we have moved from a question which could be solved by an expansion of parliamentary politics — in the way Rousseau’s version of the social contract or Serres’ natural contract. But we have move to a much more tragic situation. The question is no longer to grand rights to non humans, but to accept to be dependent on them. The lecture uses the “Embassy of the North Sea” — sponsor of the prize — to give practical example of the shift in understanding political ecology.</p> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:35:55 +0000 admin 891 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/846 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/846" target="_blank">read more</a></p> History of Science <p>Gentlemen!<br /> A number of imposing problems now have our best minds in thrall. These include questions regarding the unity or plurality of the races of Man, whether his creation ought to be dated thousands of years or thousands of centuries past, whether species are fixed, or rather undergo a slow, progressive transformation into new species, how supposedly eternal matter relates to the nothingness outside of it, and whether the idea of God is useless. These are just a few of the issues now subject to learned debate.</p> Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:54:29 +0000 admin 846 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/770 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/770" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology <p>At the center of current political storms is the issue of climate change, suggests sociologist and epistemologist Bruno Latour. He reflects on current geopolitical conditions while underlining their intricate link to migrations, the explosion of injustice under the neoliberal regime and the panic-fueled return to nationalist egoisms. In his Anthropocene Lecture he reflects on how we might gain ground again in this vexing situation.</p> Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:32:10 +0000 admin 770 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/755 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/755" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology History of Science Viualization <p>Foregrounding the importance of soil and more generally the surface of the Earth —what is now often called the Critical Zone (CZ)— remains very difficult as long as the usual planetary view, familiar since the scientific revolution, is maintained. In this joint effort , we offer an alternative visualizations which allows to shift from a planetary vision of places located in the geographic grid, to a representation of events located in what we call a Gaiagraphic view.</p> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:41:55 +0000 admin 755 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/692 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/692" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Compositionism Ecology & Political Ecology Semiotics & Literature Studies Viualization <p>What is the equipment necessary to render us sensitive to the New Climatic Regime? There is that of science, of course, without which we would not have become aware of the change. There is that of politics, the only way to assemble the relevant stake holders. But there is also that of the arts since we don't seem to be endowed naturally with the right sensitivity to absorb the magnitude of the ecological mutations.</p> Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:20:15 +0000 admin 692 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/640 Ecology & Political Ecology Politics <p>In May 2015, a simulation of the future COP21 that will be held in Paris in December 2015 was organized by a group of Sciences Po student under the direction of Frédérique Ait-Touati, Philippe Quesne and Bruno Latour at the initiative of Laurence Tubiana. 210 students from various universities attended the event that took place in a theatre, le Théâtre des Amandiers, entirely refocused by Quesne and his team around the event.</p> Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:10:38 +0000 admin 640 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/589 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/589" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Ecology & Political Ecology <p>If I am so interested in Lovelock it is precisely, and somewhat paradoxically at first sight, because I recognize in his view (and that of Lynn Margulis) a powerful way to ensure that a prematurely unified Whole does not take over the definition of what organisms are up to. Connectivity without holism. That is, exactly the opposite of what Tyrrell argues against him. To be sure, Tyrrell knows infinitely more science than I, but I have tracked the conundrum of those two levels in more places than he and that’s, for now, the crux of the matter.</p> Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:18:38 +0000 admin 589 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/563 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/563" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Philosophy Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>The tools I offered yesterday come from semiotics broadly conceived, that is, from an attention to the textuality of the accounts provided by the many disciplines of natural philosophy or of scholarship. Even though it is slightly irritating for many scientists to be reminded of such an elementary fact, they all do write accounts of what has happened in the various set-ups they have built with great care and at great expense.</p> Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:10:19 +0000 admin 563 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/562 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/562" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Semiotics & Literature Studies <p>It is under the notion of “agency” that I have regrouped some of the insights I gained from my work in science studies: hence the title: “How better to register the agency of things”. Tonight, Agency-One will deal more with semiotics, that is, with the trajectories of meaning. Tomorrow night, Agency-Two will deal with a more difficult aspect, namely with ontology, or rather “ontonomy” (not autonomy), that is, with the crossing of what is and what should be, with the drawing of the rules of what is.</p> Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:06:52 +0000 admin 562 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/552 <p><a href="http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr/node/552" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Modes of Existence <p>I will take capitalism to mean not a thing in the world, but a certain way of being affected when trying to think through this strange mixture of miseries and luxuries we encounter when trying to come to terms with the dizzying interplays of “goods” and “bads”. Capitalism is a concept invented to help absorb this odd mixture of enthusiasm for the cornucopia of riches that has lifted billions of people out of abject poverty and the indignation, rage and fury in response to the miseries visited on billions of other people.</p> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:41:44 +0000 admin 552 at http://cms-brunolatour.sciences-po.fr