ANTHRO 189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bruno Latour
26 May 2017
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*general perception of truth = a statement that agrees with nature. Latour"s insight to technology: a true statement needs to be linked to a machine that does not requirement expertise around it to work. Machines has to be able to produce truth by itself (and being a blackbox in itself). In his book science in action, latour has very little citations. Half of the examples are hypothetical; the other half are very simple (well-known/banal: this shows that he is not playing with the audience. On his other books, he does have a lot of citations. Not just because usage of social constructs (race, gender, status, etc. ) Science is political because of the persuasive rhetoric it uses.
