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Book review: reset modernity! edited by Bruno Latour [PDF]
, 2016 Emerging in dialogue with a ‘thought exhibition’ held earlier in 2016, Reset Modernity!, edited by Bruno Latour, brings together nearly sixty contributors to ponder the capacity to ‘reset’ the terms and instruments of modernity in light of the most ...
Valdur, Mari
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The Parliament of Things and the Anthropocene: How to Listen to ‘Quasi-Objects’ [PDF]
, 2017 Among the contemporary philosophers using the concept of the Anthropocene, Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers are prominent examples. The way they use this concept, however, diverts from the most common understanding of the Anthropocene.
Simons, Massimiliano
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 55-74, March 2026.In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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Oficios Terrestres, 2013 Reseña del libro Cogitamus. Seis cartas sobre las humanidades científicas, de Bruno Latour.
Alcira Martínez, Pablo Bilyk
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 139-157, March 2026.Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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Surrationalism after Bachelard: Michel Serres and le nouveau nouvel esprit scientifique [PDF]
, 2019 The work of Michel Serres is often presented as a radical break with the work of Gaston Bachelard. The aim of this paper is to partly correct this image, by focusing on Serres’s early Hermes series (1969-1980). In these books Serres portrays himself as a
Simons, Massimiliano
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Introduction : Paris, invisible city: The plasma [PDF]
, 2010 Everything in the city remains invisible, everything and, over and above everything, the city taken as a whole. One might say that we now have satellite maps enabling us to zoom in on every level, so conveniently that in a few clicks we can switch from ...
Latour, Bruno
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Introducing “La fabrique du droit”. A Conversation with Bruno Latour
Tecnoscienza, 2011 Bruno Latour talks with Paolo Landri about his book on the Conseil d'Etat (La Fabrique du droit). The conversation was held in 2006 at the time of the Italian translation of the book and illustrates the research project and the difficulties the author ...
Paolo Landri, Bruno Latour
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Michel Serres: From restricted to general ecology [PDF]
, 2017 Michel Serres's relation to ecocriticism is complex. On the one hand, he is a pioneer in the area, anticipating the current fashion for ecological thought by over a decade.
Watkin, Christopher
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