Bruno Latour spoke this evening to an overflow crowd on the topic of ‘Ecology and Democracy.’ The main substance of his talk was devoted to a largely sympathetic discussion of Break Through, the recently published book (here’s a Wired review) by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, in which they take up the argument that they [...]
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Latour: The thing is the thing
Posted in Academia, Actor-Network Theory, Environment, tagged Latour on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Complexity of Art
Posted in Art, Sociology, tagged Latour, Luhmann, sociology of art on November 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I went to a talk given a few days ago by Richard Jochum, an artist / philosopher / educator from Austria who’s been a visiting scholar here for the past two or three years now. His lecture, on ‘Understanding Contemporary Art,’ was really quite fascinating: accessible to persons like myself – who have little background [...]
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