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. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to… — Bruno Latour Copy Share
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more ‘God’ than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness, attention, contemplation,… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“What has become of critique when someone as eminent as Stanley Fish, the “enemy of promises” as Lindsay Waters calls him, believes he defends science studies, my field, by comparing the laws of physics to the rules of baseball? What has become of critique when there is a whole industry denying that the Apollo program landed on the moon? What… — Bruno Latour Copy Share
We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces” — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“Using a slogan from ANT, you have 'to follow the actors themselves', that is try to catch up with their often wild innovations in… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
