Anne Fausto SterlingDec 30, 2022
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)
Philosopher and anthropologist who revolutionized ideas about science in practice.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03796-0
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"Bruno Latour upended received wisdom on the nature of scientific truth. His proposition that scientific facts are constructed through networks of human and non-human actors initially outraged many."", he devised Actor–Network Theory (ANT)" 1/2
Bruno Latour (1947–2022)

Philosopher and anthropologist who revolutionized ideas about science in practice.

Show threadAnne Fausto SterlingDec 30, 2022
2/2 "The network comprises actors as diverse as laboratory equipment, records, paper traces, material samples, citations and research grants, as well as individual scientists. An important consequence is that the strength of a scientific fact is no more (and no less) than the work needed to unpick the alliances and disassemble the network. ANT transformed social analysis and offered a new way of doing social science."
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.
@faustosterling "He was the youngest son of a large winemaking family (the Burgundy Louis Latour, not the Bordeaux Château Latour).... He asserted that, like fine wine, good ideas suffer when exported across the English Channel."
Dec 30, 2022 at 7:03pmWeb