ANTHRO 189 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Abstraction, Bruno Latour, Gender Studies

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 189
• Professor: Peter Skafish

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Deals with equivocation that doesn"t involve encountering another politics but something that simulates looking ourselves in a mirror but can"t recognize ourselves. Facts that are not necessarily are facts, but might correspond to space and time (imaginary?) Truth is something that is constructed might have a double meaning. Latour thinks that scientific truth is not just constructed, but its relativistic. Truth (what"s right) is an effect of dispute between each other, and who wins latour is not against what"s real though. Natural phenomena (things that are not human kind of have agency) are actors for making truth. latour tries to re-invent reality through these ideas. *copinawa says that we moderns had to invent this idea of ecology to reconnect with. Latour says that we are the people of nature, because all constructs have base on nature (science is based on nature). In what ways things are ontologically speaking not just what is, but how is .