Compositionism

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...
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...
Iconoclasm is when there is a clear intent for the destruction or the demise of an image. Iconoclash is when there is an uncertainty about what is committed when an image –from science, religion or...
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...
The critical spirit might have turned empty as long as there is no alternative to the first empiricism -that of matter of fact: doubting of matters of fact can only mean getting away from the...
Constructivism is a much abused word. But since Ian Hacking has done a review of some of his meanings, an effort is made to see how it can be rescued from the disrepute of ‘social’ constructivism....
Prepared in honor of Donna Haraway, this dialog explores why the notion of critique implies an increase in proximity and not in distance.
The Neale Wheeler Watson Lecture 2010, given by Professor Bruno Latour: "May Nature Be Recomposed? A Few Questions of Cosmopolitics". Location: Nobel Museum, Svenska Akademiens Börssal, May 11 2010....
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...
Bruno Latour has given the six Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion for 2013, under the title: Facing Gaia, Six Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature. Those six lectures in ‘natural...