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	Bruno Latour
		Bruno Latour ist Professor für Soziologie an der Ecole des Mines de Paris.
		Latour, Bruno: Eine neue Soziologie für eine neue Gesellschaft
		Was tun, fragt Bruno Latour, mit der Politik der Ökologiebewegungen?
	www.perlentaucher.de /autoren/4198.html (240 words)

	Janus Head GWU - 2001 / Is Stephen Hawking Modern?: A Study of A Brief History of Time in Relation to the Theories of ...
		Latour would argue that the technical language employed by scientists and mathematicians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was not just a coincidence, but an act of purification in the modern sense.
		Latour contends that "certain trades [psychoanalysis, theoretical physics, philosophy, etc.] claim that they are able to extend themselves potentially or âin theoryâ beyond the networks within which they practice and that "[t]hough all networks are the same size, arrogance is not equally distributed" (Latour, p.
		Latour would argue that it is a wish to clear a place for science to work for the good and not be sullied by the more unpleasant aspects of life.
	www.janushead.org /gwu-2001/madison.cfm (4617 words)

	Harvard University Press: Aramis, or the Love of Technology by Bruno Latour
		Bruno Latour has written a unique and wonderful tale of a technological dream gone wrong.
		The reader is eventually led to see the project from the point of view of Aramis, and along the way gains insight into the relationship between human beings and their technological creations.
		Bruno Latour is Professor at the Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, Paris.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/LATARA.html (173 words)

	Powell's Books - Aramis, Or the Love of Technology by Bruno Latour
		It is [the] world of machines that Latour sets out to rehabilitate in his clever new work...an eminently readable book--even on occasions a ripping good yarn.
		Relationalists have to insist that made-found is as dubious as the value-fact and subject-object distinctions.
		Immediately after the project ended, Bruno Latour was asked by the RATP to investigate what went wrong.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0674043235-2 (579 words)

	Presidential Lectures: Bruno Latour
		Latour's boundary-defying work has predictably provoked controversy, and he has become a favorite target of critics who seek to maintain borders between the disciplines.
		Latour received a Fulbright Fellowship (1975-1976) and NATO Fellowship (1976-1977) for the project, so that beginning in October 1975 he worked in California for a nearly two-year study of research at the Salk Institute.
		Professor Latour has for many years been on the faculty of the Centre de sociologie de l'Innovation of the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines in Paris, and is also visiting professor at the London School of Economics and in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.
	prelectur.stanford.edu /lecturers/latour (1096 words)

	Filosofitis - Ensayitis: Bruno Latour, etnografista
		Bruno Latour (foto a la derecha) nació en 1946.
		Hay numerosos articulos suyos disponibles en la web;asi como articulos de divulgación; también disponemos de su curadoría de la expo Iconoclash.
		Latour y sus fotógrafos se meten en esos nidos (servicio de aguas, Prefectura de policía, Panópticos desde donde se ve toda la ciudad) para mostrar las condiciones de posibilidad (no formales como en Kant sino materiales) de la ciudad.
	www.ilhn.com /filosofitis/ensayitis/archives/000567.php (1357 words)

	Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory - the Dooyeweerd Pages
		Latour (1999) claimed that the use of ANT was to deal with a couple of fundamental dissatisfactions.
		The commensurability between Latour's notion of actantiality and actants and Dooyeweerd's aspectual framework and entities that function in all frameworks.
		Latour's notion of dissatisfaction when taking either a micro or macro focus, and the need we feel to swing between them, is accounted for by Dooyeweerd's claim that the aspects 'resist' being pulled apart by theoretical analysis, and our suggestion that micro and macro could correspond, respectively, to focusing on the pre- and post-social aspects.
	www.dooy.salford.ac.uk /ext/ant.html (2449 words)

	Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, Eds. Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art.(Book Review) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to its guiding spirit, Bruno Latour, the point of the exhibition and book was to bring religious images and those used in scientific investigation together with modernist art, so as to demonstrate the operation of what he calls iconoclash at work in all of them.
		Latour's thesis is addressed by almost all the contributors, and the volume has a coherence that belies its size and scope.
		Latour's project is neither an exercise in structuralist analysis nor an attempt to reveal the basic building blocks of cultural life so much as an effort to get us to look beyond iconoclasm and iconophilia in order to appreciate that the conflict between these positions is an ideological one that has no epistemological foundation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-109944419.html (1693 words)

	Bruno Latour
		Bruno Latour (born 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists.
		Latour highlights the social forces at work in and around Pasteur's career and the uneven manner in which his theories were accepted.
		Latour has taught at engineering schools in France for over 20 years, and is currently attached to the École des Mines in Paris.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/br/bruno_latour.html (532 words)

	Latour, Bruno - STSWiki
		Latour's interest in the anthropology of science and technology, and his collaboration with Augé, led him to conceptualize a pioneering field research venture: a study of the "daily activities of scientists in their natural habitat" (Latour 1979: 274), the research laboratory.
		In retrospect, Latour says, his unwillingness to toe the Strong Programme's line is best explained by the fact that he is French, not British; the Strong Programme, Latour says, arises in the first instance from a long, nasty, and peculiarly British war between totalizing scientific empiricists and their critics.
		Latour therefore felt no pressure to adhere to the Strong Programme Latour's discomfort with the Strong Programme's relativism must have been complicated by the fact that, in 1977, two years prior to the publication of Laboratory Life, Guillemin was awarded a Nobel Prize for the very work that Latour had himself observed.
	en.stswiki.org /wiki/Latour,_Bruno (2877 words)

	Bruno Latour - WtmcWiki
		Bruno Latour (born June 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists.
		Latour highlights the social forces at work in and around Pasteur's career and the uneven manner in which his theories were accepted.
		Latour's 1987 book Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society is one of the key texts of the sociology of scientific knowledge and, as such, has become the lightning rod of much of the criticism directed against him, such as the book Fashionable Nonsense by Sokal and Bricmont.
	www.wtmc.net /wiki/index.php?title=Bruno_Latour (561 words)

	ANTHROPOLOGIST BIOGRAPHIES - Latour
		Bruno Latour, best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and science studies over the past thirty years, has had a major but underappreciated impact on the discipline of anthropology.
		Latour’s contributions to the Science Wars, beginning with Laboratory Life and continuing in expanded form in Science in Action, was to provide the social constructivists with the ethnographic tools to study the culture of scientists and scientific institutions.
		Latour’s work effectively provided a theoretical basis for self-reflexivity that at the same time could preserve anthropology as an authority on culture by giving it the critical tools for that self-analysis.
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/theory_pages/Latour.htm (2410 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Theories of technology
		For example, Latour (1992) argues that instead of worrying whether we are anthropomorphizing technology, we should embrace it as inherently anthropomorphic: technology is made by humans, substitutes for the actions of people, and shapes human action.
		What is important is the chain and gradients of actors' actions and competences, and the degree to which we choose to have figurative representations.
		Actor-network theory, sometimes abbreviated to ANT, is a sociological theory developed by Bruno Latour, Michel Callon and John Law.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Theories-of-technology (1995 words)

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		Bruno Latour (born June 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action.
		Along with Michel Callon and John Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of actor-network theory (ANT), a quasi-constructionist approach influenced by the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel, the generative semiotics of Algirdas Julius Greimas, and the maverick sociology of Durkheim's rival Gabriel Tarde.
		Latour is related to a well-known family of winemakers from Burgundy and is not associated with the similarly-named estate in Bordeaux.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bruno_Latour (813 words)

	Lingua Franca \| ...That Damned Elusive Bruno Latour
		Latour is one of the most rigorous thinkers in the loose combination of disciplines known as "science studies" -- an amalgam of the sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and rhetoric of science -- and if there's one thing he dislikes, it's the naïve concept of truth required to place your faith in a fl box.
		Latour says he withdrew before a final vote could be taken, "because I knew I would embarrass the people who backed me. It took me months to get over it." The stories vary, but to judge by the number of unreturned phone calls, and refusals to comment, fe elings are still bitter.
		Latour says he learned early to see the past not as an oppressive weight to be thrown off, as it is in the modernist drama of progress, nor as a museum of now-meaningless fragments, as it sits in the postmodernist landscape, but merely as a part of the present.
	linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org /9410/latour.html (4715 words)

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		Bruno Latour, born in 1947 in Beaune, Burgundy, from a wine grower family, was trained first as a philosopher and then an anthropologist.
		Latour delivers his "sermon" exemplifying the regime of enunciation of religious talk.
		Latour responds to a question from the audience, while the other discussants look on.
	www.srhe.ucsb.edu /lectures/info/latour.html (576 words)

	Undergrads focus of scholar’s visit \| The Rice Thresher
		Latour is currently a sociology professor at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, but he has held positions in anthropology and began his academic career in philosophy.
		The book provides an example of Latour’s ability to explain and engage students in discussing science as both an object and a method of study — one of the abilities Kelty said is unique to Latour among scholars of his prestige.
		Latour’s broad-ranging understanding underlies his most famous cultural commentary: in the 1980s Latour proposed Actor-Network Theory, which asserts that societies work as networks of relationships between objects and people, who all act and are acted upon to create culture.
	the.ricethresher.org /sports/2007/02/02/bruno_latour_visit (835 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Clarendon Lectures in Management ...
		Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer.
		Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanations' of other states of affairs.
		In Latour's argument all things including human and non-human are mediators by which action is not only transfered but also the actors and its associated action undergo a metamorphosis process in each mode of action.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0199256047 (713 words)

	The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » Bruno Latour
		Latour is right to say that this dualistic, correspondence theory of truth (or its inversion, the deconstructionist abyss of language that cannot reach out beyond itself to the world) ignores the way that things like scientific theories, statements, and models are themselves actions or events or performances in the world.
		Latour is not the first thinker to resituate language in the world in this way, but he is the one who has applied it to the understanding of science, and specifically scientific practice.
		In one sense, Latour’s statement is a tautology; but I think that Latour is trying to pull a fast one, by using this tautology to insinuate a deeper meaning, according to which the change in the world that took place in 1864 affected something more than certain instrumental activities of human beings with yeast.
	www.shaviro.com /Blog/?p=265 (870 words)

	Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour : Book (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Latour points out that once an object is deemed to be real, scientists often invert the logic and argue that the reason why the combined set of experiments worked in the first place was that the object was in fact real.
		Latour gives a account of how the modalities of each statement are modified by how every other scientist in the field cites the statement in future scientific papers.
		Although Latour has since gone onto to more and more abstract studies, the beauty of Laboratory Life is that it is firmly grounded in the actual practises of an existing laboratory, the Guillemen Lab at the Salks Institute.
	www.crimsonbird.com /4/069102832X.html (1256 words)

	American Scientist Online - Science Studies Study (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Latour uses Pandora's Hope as a platform to address this stasis, not by presenting a point-by-point rebuttal of his critics but instead by pressing "inquiries, anecdotes, myths, legends, textual studies and more than a little bit of conceptual bricolage" into the service of revealing what he believes to be the way forward.
		Latour's descriptions of science in action (the title of perhaps his most widely known work) can be engaging and wonderfully discerning, as in his discussions here of scientists analyzing soil in the Amazon, the activities of French atomic scientists in 1939 or the work of Louis Pasteur.
		Ultimately, it is unlikely that Latour will manage to convert those critics who feel his curiosity about the scientific enterprise was an ill-fated venture; nor will many of his colleagues in science studies be likely to look kindly on his sometimes grandiose assertions of having now settled thorny questions that render all other perspectives moot.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/AssetDetail/assetid/27301;jsessionid=aaabV0LoUgQran (444 words)

	Amazon.de: We Have Never Been Modern: English Books: Bruno LaTour,Catherine Porter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Latour, for those of you who don't know him, has been at the forefront of the emerging field of "science studies", the history and sociology of science, for the past 15 years.
		Latour wants us, the generation left with the consequences of this revelation, to exhume this past of hybridity, and seek out a new relationship between nature and culture.
		Latour elegantly and convincingly lays out his thesis, and the results are dazzling and compelling.
	www.amazon.de /We-Have-Never-Been-Modern/dp/0674948386 (985 words)

	Bruno Latour
		Bruno Latour is a deep and thoughtful writer, who places science and technology into its social context.
		More recently, I had the privilege to attend a lecture at Brunel University, on April 1st 1998, where Latour offered a controversial, and possibly tongue-in-cheek, analysis of Virtual Reality: "Thought Experiments in Social Science: from the Social Contract to Virtual Society".
		Latour is a professor of sociology at the School of Mines in Paris.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~rxv/books/latour.htm (290 words)

	Exercices de métaphysique empirique (autour des travaux de Bruno Latour) (2007)
		Bruno Latour, philosophe, anthropologue et sociologue, est l’auteur d’une œuvre reconnue et traduite dans de nombreuses langues du monde.
		Bruno Latour argues for a philosophy of science that embraces transformation rather than constants that survive all transformations as the basis of objectivity.
		La théorie des acteurs-réseaux de Bruno Latour transgresse les règles de l'art de Pierre Bourdieu au niveau de la théorie esthétique et de la pensée politique et mets à la disposition un vocabulaire, qui permet de comprendre des pratiques artistiques contemporaines dans de ce que l'on appelle les "champs d'action ouverts".
	www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr /latour07.html (3684 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter)
		As in his earlier work, Latour shows that it is the objects and devices we use which are the great fl hole in our thought, and when we conceive of democratic bodies it's as a great mass of people, and not much else.
		Importantly, because Latour has always said, and continues to here, that what does most of the work of holding these bodies together is the objects and machines they create and use, he proffers the word 'collective', a less human-centric term, to designate any 'social' body.
		As technologies have grown in scale and complexity, noting that `technologies' for Latour are institutions, including all of the humans that are required for their functioning, they've reached a threshold whereby `global' processes such as climate are also affected.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0674013476.htm (2175 words)

	Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society
		In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity.
		Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general.
		Latour does away with metaphysical ideas of "The Truth" but insist in stead that truth is very much a stage in a process of negotiation between human and non-human actors.
	www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Science_in_Action:_How_to_Follow_Scientists_and_Engineers_through_Society-0674792912.html (709 words)

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