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8China von den Banalitäten des Denkens befreienIn Murat Ates, François Jullien & Georg Stenger (eds.), Umweg, Abstand, Transformation: Antworten auf François Julliens Diskurs mit China, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 33-36. 2025.In der Kontroverse bezüglich der Arbeit von François Jullien findet man eine bestimmte Blindheit vor, wenn man ihm zum Beispiel vorwirft, er habe den Einfluss der ‚Staatsmacht‘ und der ‚Herrschaft/Obrigkeit‘ im chinesischen Imperium vernachlässigt. Es ist in dieser Affäre interessant zu sehen, dass die Alterität hier in bedeutendem Ausmaß im wörtlichen Sinn alteriert, wenn man, ohne sich sofort ethnozentrisch zu fühlen, glaubt, bereits über all das nötige Vokabular zu verfügen, um gleich von Vor…Read more
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26Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic RegimePolity. 2018.The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people. What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with t…Read more
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6InhaltsverzeichnisIn Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Michael Hagner & Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt (eds.), Räume des Wissens: Repräsentation, Codierung, Spur, De Gruyter. pp. 5-6. 1996.
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9Waiting for GaiaIn Susan McHugh & Giovanni Aloi (eds.), Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader, Columbia University Press. pp. 229-234. 2020.
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11A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design with Special Attention to Peter SloterdijkIn Willem Schinkel, Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens, Lena Tsipouri & Vanja Stenius (eds.), In Medias Res: Peter Sloterdijk's Spherological Poetics of Being, Amsterdam University Press. pp. 151-164. 2012.
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12AutorenverzeichnisIn Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Michael Hagner & Bettina Wahrig-Schmidt (eds.), Räume des Wissens: Repräsentation, Codierung, Spur, De Gruyter. pp. 357-358. 1996.
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80Bruno Latour: Existenzweisen. Eine Anthropologie der ModernenPhilosophischer Literaturanzeiger 67 (4): 356-366. 2014.
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31La religion à l'épreuve de l'écologie: suivi de, Exégèse et ontologieLa Découverte. 2024.De novembre 2020 à janvier 2021, Bruno Latour s'est prêté au jeu de relire un texte qu'il avait depuis longtemps oublié : sa thèse de doctorat. Reproduite en intégralité en seconde partie de cet ouvrage, elle a constitué le point de départ des entretiens qui la précèdent (menés par plusieurs sociologues et théologiens). L'enjeu de ces entretiens était d'aborder une question aussi importante que controversée : quel rôle a joué la 'parole religieuse' dans la trajectoire intellectu…Read more
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69Gaia as Seen from WithinTheory, Culture and Society 41 (5): 69-90. 2024.Through our three-way collaboration we sought to understand Gaia and its political implications from the bottom-up and from within. Here we introduce that view of Gaia and how the dialogue between a philosopher (Bruno), a scientist (Tim), and a historian and philosopher of science (Séb) turned into a research programme. This sets in context a previously unpublished piece by Latour: ‘There is nothing simple in a feedback loop – or why goal function is not the problem of Gaia’.
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51Eine seltsame Form von AutonomieZeitschrift für Medien- Und Kulturforschung 2 (2): 114-141. 2011.The text describes the specific mode of existence and operation of Law, which is not determined by external social factors, nor is its autonomy that of a subsystem. Its deliberate super ciality achieves a particular form of cohesion: Its form of enunciation connects utterances and actions in such a way that they can be assigned unambiguously to a single speaker and actor. This is the undisrupted thread which binds men, goods, locations, time, resolutions, etc.
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34Habiter la Terre: entretiens avec Nicolas TruongArte éditions. 2022.Une envie de transmettre, d'expliquer. De s'expliquer aussi. Sur la cohérence d'une pensée que l'apparente dispersion et variété des sujets qu'il a abordés avait, en partie, masquée. Bruno Latour s'est livré à cette série d'entretiens avec une simplicité, une jubilation et une puissance qui n'adviennent que dans les moments où l'on sait que la vie, et notamment celle de l'esprit, se condense. Un apaisement lié au sentiment d'urgence, une immanence indissociable de l'imminence et de l…Read more
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30La Pensee Metisse: Croyance Africaine Et Rationalite Occidentale En Question (edited book)Puf. 1990.
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53Rejoicing: or The Torments of Religious SpeechPolity Press. 2013.Bruno Latour’s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have ‘never been modern’. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on science, on technology and, more recently, on law, this book explores the truth conditions of religious speech acts.Even though there is no question that religion is one of the values that has been intensely cherished in the cours…Read more
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70Biography of an inquiry: On a book about modes of existenceSocial Studies of Science 43 (2): 287-301. 2013.Since the project on Modes of Existence has been long in coming and has connection with all the successive field works done by the author, the paper tries to retrace the main steps that have led to the project. It shows that this project precedes the work done in actor-network theory and explains the link between philosophy and anthropology through the peculiar notion of mode of existence.
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36Chapter Thirty-Nine Waiting for GaiaIn Susan McHugh & Giovanni Aloi (eds.), Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader, Columbia University Press. pp. 229-234. 2020.
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22Face à Gaïa: huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatiqueLes Empêcheurs de penser en rond. 2015.James Lovelock n'a pas eu de chance avec l'hypothèse Gaïa. En nommant par ce vieux mythe grec le système fragile et complexe par lequel les phénomènes vivants modifient la Terre, on a cru qu'il parlait d'un organisme unique, d'un thermostat géant, voire d'une Providence divine. Rien n'était plus éloigné de sa tentative. Gaïa n'est pas le Globe, n'est pas la Terre-Mère, n'est pas une déesse païenne, mais elle n'est pas non plus la Nature, telle qu'on l'imagine depuis le XVIIe siècle, cette Nature…Read more
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40Reset modernity! (edited book)MIT Press. 2016.Let's touch base -- Relocalizing the global -- Without the world or within -- Sharing responsibility: farewell to the sublime -- From lands to disputed territories -- Innovation not hype -- Secular at last -- In search of a diplomatic middle ground -- Appendix.
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2Facing Gaia: eight lectures on the new climatic regimePolity. 2017.The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it…Read more
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74Politiques de GaïaMultitudes 4 75-83. 2021.Dans cet entretien mené par Dominiq Jenvrey et Ariel Kyrou, Bruno Latour revient sur son rapport à Gaïa, sur les voisinages, les mérites et les problèmes associés à cette référence. Cela lui permet de se positionner à la fois historiquement et conceptuellement à l’égard de nombreuses pensées contemporaines de l’Anthropocène.
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42Politiques de la nature: comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratieDécouverte. 1999.Comment combler le fossé apparemment infranchissable séparant la science (chargée de comprendre la nature) et la politique (chargée de régler la vie sociale), séparation dont les conséquences - affaires du sang, de l'amiante, de la vache folle... - deviennent de plus en plus catastrophiques? L'écologie politique a prétendu apporter une réponse à ce défi. Mais après de fracassants débuts, elle peine à renouveler la vie publique... Dans ce livre qui fait suite à Nous n'avons jamais été modernes (L…Read more
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323Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (edited book)Mit Press (Ma). 2005.Another monumental ZKM publication, redefining politics as a concern for things around which the fluid and expansive constituency of the public gathers; with contributions by more than 100 writers and artists.
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135How to Remain Human in the Wrong Space? A Comment on a Dialogue by Carl SchmittCritical Inquiry 47 (4): 699-718. 2021.To become aware of the depth of the ecological mutation, one has to criticize the notion of abstract space. It turns out that, in many of his works, Carl Schmitt has found ways to politicize the production of neutral depoliticized space. This is especially true in “Dialogue on New Space.” The dialogue summarizes Schmitt’s earlier works, but it also tries to relate, audaciously, the character of being human with the different conceptions of space entertained by each protagonist of the dialogue. E…Read more
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235Conflicts of Planetary Proportion – A ConversationJournal of the Philosophy of History 14 (3): 419-454. 2020.The introduction of the long-term history of the Earth into the preoccupations of historians has triggered a crisis because it has become impossible to keep the “planet” as one single entity outside of history properly understood. As soon as the planetary intruded into history, it became impossible to keep it as one naturalized background. By problematizing the planetary, Dipesh Chakrabarty has forced philosophers, historians and anthropologists to extend pluralism to the very ground on which hi…Read more
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59The Impact of Science Studies on Political PhilosophyScience, Technology and Human Values 16 (1): 3-19. 1991.The development of science studies has an important message for political theory. This message has not yet been fully articulated. It seems that the science studies field is often considered as the extension of politics to science. In reality, case studies show that it is a redefinition of politics that we are witnessing in the laboratories. To the political representatives should be added the scientific representatives. Thanks to a book by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, it is possible to rec…Read more