“The 'great man' is a little man looking at a good map.”
unfassbar hohe Dichte an guten Punchlines in einem Artikel. R.I.P.
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Latour (1986): Visualisation and Cognition: Thinking with Eyes and Hands. In H. Kuklick (editor) Knowledge and Society Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present , Jai Press vol. 6, pp. 1-40.
On the occasion of Bruno Latour's death on October 9, 2022, this article deals with the political value of actor-network theory (ANT). It reviews current literature on the topic as well as a TV interview with Latour, which was produced in October 2021 and aired on the European public service channel Arte in May 2022. The text shows that Latour does not develop a political grand theory, but rather a political ethics based on post-structuralist approaches from the 1980s. By deepening our understanding of the everyday interplay between humans and things, ANT laid the methodological ground to build new concepts and institutions better suited to cope with the social and political issues raised by the ecological crisis.
In obigem review auch schöner hat tip zu Haraway
"Haraway [...] setzt sie dem naturwissenschaftlichen "Gottestrick", alles aus dem Nirgendwo sehen und sagen zu können, "partielles, lokalisierbares, kritisches Wissen" entgegen, "das die Möglichkeit von Beziehungsgeflechten aufrechterhält, in der Politik als Solidarität und in der Erkenntnislehre als geteilte Konversationen bezeichnet."
(Haraway hat ohnehin noch höhere Punchline-Dichte als Latour)
OK, weil Tweet-Archiv immer noch nicht angekommen ist mal paar Haraway-Sachen rĂĽberholen
> Ist etwas manieriert, aber gefällt mir trotzdem gut. "It matters which stories tell stories, which concepts think concepts. Mathematically, visually, and narratively, it matters which figures figure figures, which systems systematize systems."
(Haraway, 2015:160)
“Ist etwas manieriert, aber gefällt mir trotzdem gut. "It matters which stories tell stories, which concepts think concepts. Mathematically, visually, and narratively, it matters which figures figure figures, which systems systematize systems." (Haraway, 2015:160)”
grawzone 🍄