Archives mensuelles : septembre 2013

Bruno Latour is a masterly rhetorician, and what he says in a seemingly literal style is not to be taken as a direct transcription of his thoughts – no such an empiricist reading can ever be adequate to his rhetorical … Lire la suite →

At the beginning of Chapter Two of AN INQUIRY INTO MODES OF EXISTENCE Bruno Latour recounts an anecdote based on Gilbert Ryle’s introduction of the notion of category mistake in THE CONCEPT OF MIND (1949): « The canonical example involves a … Lire la suite →

Bruno Latour’s religious outlook is central to AN INQUIRY INTO MODES OF EXISTENCE, and his discovery of different modes of enunciation (and thus of existence) goes back to his apprenticeship in Biblical exegesis. Indeed religious enunciation appears as a model … Lire la suite →

Bruno Latour’s AN INQUIRY INTO MODES OF EXISTENCE purports to be the sequel to WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN, published 20 years earlier. Where that book’s emphasis was mainly negative, as the title shows, deconstructing the false identity that was … Lire la suite →

Does Bruno Latour have two philosophies, as he claims recently, or just one? Is this a empirical or « double-click » question? Or is it a hermeneutical question? does it depend on our interpretation, which may be different than the one Latour … Lire la suite →

Thanks to Angela Roothaan for drawing my attention to this: Very interesting interview. There is a little mistranslation at the beginning when he talks about the myth of Pandora and repeated a few times. He says that the « words » escape … Lire la suite →

Note: this post and the preceding one were inspired in part by my reading of the text to a recent talk by Levi Bryant that he has kindly made freely available Much of French philosophy is based on a linguistics … Lire la suite →

Note: this post and the next one were inspired in part by my reading of the text to a recent talk by Levi Bryant that he has kindly made freely available Can the individual member of an intellectual movement just … Lire la suite →

I have been reading Bruno Latour and Geof Bowker’s discussion of the different approaches to science in France and in the English-speaking world. Each side sees the other as ignoring crucial problems, so rather than choose sides Bowker and Latour … Lire la suite →

Very interesting article by Andrew Iliadis: Informational Ontology: The Meaning of Gilbert Simondon’s Concept of Individuation