Bruno Latour Quotes

Bruno Latour — French Scientist born on June 22, 1947,

Bruno Latour is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist of science. He is especially known for his work in the field of Science and Technology Studies. After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris from 1982 to 2006, he is now Professor at Sciences Po Paris, where he is the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He is also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics... (wikipedia)

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.