tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post8471692664490380659..comments2024-03-27T23:59:49.801+00:00Comments on Stoat: Is Bruno Latour a useless ponce?William M. Connolleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836299130680534926noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post-15336992121421790872018-03-11T16:11:49.931+00:002018-03-11T16:11:49.931+00:00IIRC you want the essay in which Latour rejected e...IIRC you want the essay in which Latour rejected ecomodernism.Steve Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943109973917998380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post-42863311169211141172018-03-06T19:22:08.872+00:002018-03-06T19:22:08.872+00:00There's definitely https://andthentheresphysic...There's definitely https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/bruno-latour/ (to which my only contribution was to mention Sokal) but I agree I can't see any more.William M. Connolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836299130680534926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post-81617833322963165372018-03-06T18:57:53.736+00:002018-03-06T18:57:53.736+00:00I've only - I think - written once about Latou...I've only - I think - written once about Latour. Is it possible that the context was Steve Fuller (who seems proud of his apparent role in promoting post truth), rather than Latour?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post-76710540365390134302018-03-06T18:14:26.355+00:002018-03-06T18:14:26.355+00:00> question the authority of scientists led unwi...> question the authority of scientists led unwittingly to climate change skepticism<br /><br />Yeah, I swear I had or read a discussion of that. Possibly at ATTP's, he's always fond of Science Studies :-). But diligent googling of mine failed to turn up much.William M. Connolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05836299130680534926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post-23155049683815099382018-03-06T17:48:33.607+00:002018-03-06T17:48:33.607+00:00" Brecht's Gallileo "
Sorry- the ..." Brecht's <i>Gallileo</i> "<br /><br />Sorry- the preview ate my Godwin warning.THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7612793.post-50014916793509796272018-03-06T17:44:56.007+00:002018-03-06T17:44:56.007+00:00Watching le chef frog polemique debate Sokal ...Watching le chef frog polemique debate Sokal to a draw at the LSE two decades ago, I reckoned him more than a performance artiste , and he has indeed continued to lead the postmodern chorus. But I prefaced the interview William has linked with a three penny opera's worth of snark alarm:: <br /><br /><br />" Critics tried to lump him with postmodern literary relativists — a label he denies, but he wonders <br /><br />if his earlier efforts to question the authority of scientists led unwittingly to climate change skepticism. <br />... He has since enlisted on the side of the Paris Convention in the climate wars, as an avatar of the larger intellectual project of the Anthropocene, by embracing Jame’s Lovelock’s Gaia theory...<br /><br />Latour has never been a man to run away from a good cliché’, and recalling his early academic days spent working on a Catholic theology PhD, he invokes an impending “apocalypse.” <br /><br />Recently retired as head of the Paris Sciences Po Medialab, he’s considering turning Lovelock’s life a play along the lines of Brecht’s ."THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.com