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Reassembling the Social
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 29.99Latour is a world famous and widely published French sociologist who has written with great eloquence and perception about the relationship between people, science, and technology. He is also closely associated with the school of thought known as Actor Network Theory. In this book he sets out for the first time in one place his own ideas about Actor... more...
Reassembling the Social
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 29.99Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective... more...
Action and Agency in Dialogue
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as ?doing things with words?? That is, what if other ?things? could also be granted... more...
Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE, The
John Hunt Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman. more...
Laboratory Life
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 37.50This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of... more...
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