Facing GaiaBruno Latour, Catherine Porter
Facing Gaia
by Bruno Latour, Catherine Porter · first published 2017
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"The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of Nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of Nature have been continuously developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the many unexpected connections between human activity and the natural world o
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I figure this would be the kind of response to this article here. please I highly recommend Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour, mentioned in the article. he's not by any stretch anti-science. it's about recognizing that's things as such have agency, even if they are "inanimate" and when we treat them that way…
on “The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things” ↗a praxis of Latour's Facing Gaia. beautiful.
on “Listening to the Creatures of the World” ↗…actions. I think that this should ring a bell to those who put work into infrastructures, digital or not. It certainly did with the engineer I was. If so, I recommend starting with his last major book, Facing Gaia. It's as good as an Alan Moore book.
on ““Latour for Architects” is now open access” ↗