RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour
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Perspective 2 - science is politically, culturally, socially motivated. Latour - needs to undo separation between nature and society, human and nonhuman, material and ideal. Hawking becomes a famous man because he is mediated and assisted by machines and his assistances in an extreme way, with extended extremities (not just unified center) But each of us have extensions as well! Latour wants to understand science, politics, medicine etc. as interrelated and equal in level. Sts science and technological studies: hybrid field of scientists and philosophers who study hybrid things that the intellectual culture does not know how to categorize/ trace socio-technological networks and weave together the heavens, industry, texts, souls, and moral law . Can see society at once real and narratized. The networks are and collective, like society (6) Latour gets rid of constructivism and turns to realization. To be modern - 2 levels the hypothesis (1) purification (2) translation/ hybrid production.
