LATOUR, Bruno. 1994. Pragmatogonies: a mythical account of how humans and nonhumans swap properties. American Behavioral Scientist 37(6):791-808. HUMANO e NÃO HUMANO In this article, I […] want to offer an alternative myth to help us suspend our knowledge of what constitutes the human subject and the nonhuman object. (Latour 1994:791) Humans for a few millions of years now have […]
Integrantes do LaSPA têm um Seminário Temático (ST) aprovado na IX Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia (IX ReACT), e convidam interessades a submeter trabalhos (prazo: de 26/06 a 20/08). A IX ReACT acontecerá na Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) entre os dias 21 e 24 de novembro de 2023. ST 28 – Antropologia não-humana Coordenação: Pedro P. […]
O boletim CTS em foco, da ESOCITE.br, acaba de lançar seu volume 2, número 4, dedicado a Bruno Latour. Seguem alguns trechos da “Apresentação” dos organizadores do volume, Arthur A.L. Ferreira e Rosa M.L.R. Pedro: “Bruno Latour é um dos nomes mais reconhecidos, senão o de maior destaque, no campo CTS atual, seja no plano nacional seja em nível global. […]
Durkheim may be right, but so is Harold Garfinkel. Perhaps the solution, in keeping with the generative principle of my genealogy, is to look for nonhumans. (This explicit principle is : look for nonhumans when the emergence of a social feature is inexplicable; look to the state of social relations when a new and inexplicable type of object enters the […]
“When the sage points at the Moon,” says the Chinese proverb, “the fool looks at his fingertip.” Well, we [social scientists] have all educated ourselves to be fools! This is our deontology. This is what a social scientist learns at school, mocking the unwashed who naively believe in the Moon. We know that when actors speak about the Virgin Mary, […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1994. Jamais fomos modernos: ensaio de antropologia simétrica. (trad. Carlos Irineu da Costa) Rio de Janeiro: Ed.34. [1991] O PROBLEMA DO HUMANISMO MODERNO A modernidade é muitas vezes definida através do humanismo, seja para saudar o nascimento do homem, seja para anunciar sua morte. Mas o próprio hábito é moderno, uma vez que este continua sendo assimétrico. Esquece […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1999. Glossary. In: Pandora’s hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp.303-11. ACTOR, ACTANT: The great interest of science studies is that it offers, through the study of laboratory practice, many cases of the emergence of an actor. Instead of starting with entities that are already components of the world, science studies focuses […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 1999. Pandora’s hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ESTUDOS de CIÊNCIA MOSTRAM a VIDA DOS NÃO-HUMANOS no COLETIVO If science studies has achieved anything, I thought, surely it has added reality to science, not withdrawn any from it. Instead of the stuffed scientists hanging on the walls of the armchair philosophers of […]
LATOUR, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor-network theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. NONHUMAN AGENCY as ANT TEST Although there is no clear litmus test for ANT membership, some ad hoc and make- shift ones may be devised. […] One of them is the precise role granted to non-humans. They have to be actors […] and not simply […]
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