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Bruno Latour and Artificial Intelligence

Tecnoscienza
This scenario discusses generative AI in light of Bruno Latour’s sociology of technology. It considers why Latour showed little interest in the simulation of intelligence and how connectionist AI fails to meet his condition for scientificity but offers a
Tommaso Venturini
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Revisiting Capital and Class in the Ecological Crisis: Toward an Expanded and Historical Approach

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical review of recent literature examining the entanglement of ecological crisis, capitalism, and class struggle, and proposes the incorporation of an expanded and historical perspective on class. First, we offer an introductory conceptual mapping of the anticapitalist ecology and some of its most significant ...
Julio Martínez‐Cava Aguilar, Rubén Martínez Moreno   +1 more
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Cogitamus. Seis cartas sobre las humanidades científicas o ¿de cuántas maneras diferentes puede componerse el multiverso?

Oficios Terrestres, 2013
Reseña del libro Cogitamus. Seis cartas sobre las humanidades científicas, de Bruno Latour.
Alcira Martínez, Pablo Bilyk
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Filosofía orientada a los objetos y la comprensión de las realidades científicas

Athenea Digital, 2011
En este ensayo reflexiono sobre el primer tratado consagrado a la metafísica de Bruno Latour, la obra de Graham Harman Prince of Networks. Explico cómo Harman pone de relieve las raíces y principios de la filosofía orientada a los objetos latouriana ...
Paloma García Díaz
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
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Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
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The Sociology of AI as an Emerging Field: Mapping Tensions and Boundaries

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The expanding role of artificial intelligence (AI) in social life compels a foundational reassessment of sociology's concepts, methods, and theoretical commitments. From generative language models to predictive policing, AI systems are no longer mere tools but increasingly agentic, opaque, and normative sociotechnical actors.
Canhui Liu
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Quand Bruno Latour transforme le sociologue en artiste-designer-scénographe

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
The article looks back at an atypical work: the exhibition Making Things Public, which Bruno Latour organized with artist Peter Weibel. This exhibition proposed to take the etymology of the word “res-publica” seriously, by exhibiting a “parliament of ...
Franck Cochoy
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On criticism, misrepresentation, and logical fallacy in Egyptology: A response to Aaron de Souza’s review of Ethnic Identities in the Land of the Pharaohs. Past and Present Approaches in Egyptology

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023
Reading the books Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by Ludwik Fleck (1981 [1935]) and Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (1986) was in many ways an eye-opening experience.
Uroš Matić
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