Bruno Latour is Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and the 2013 winner of the Ludvig Holberg International Memorial Prize.
[An Inquiry into Modes of Existence] is not just a book; it is also
a project in interactive metaphysics. In other words, a book, plus
website... Intrigued readers of Latour's text can go online [http:
//www.modesofexistence.org/] and find themselves drawn into a
collaborative project. Collective collaboration--some would call it
'crowdsourcing'--is rare in philosophy, but Latour, a sociologist
and anthropologist by training, is used to collaboration with
scientists... Latour's work makes the world--sorry,
worlds--interesting again. And, best of all, it is a project to
which you can attach yourself.-- (12/28/2012)
Magnificent... An Inquiry into Modes of Existence shows that
[Latour] has lost none of his astonishing fertility as a thinker,
or his skill and wit as a writer... Latour's main message--that
rationality is 'woven from more than one thread'--is intended not
just for the academic seminar, but for the public square--and the
public square today is global as never before. Thanks to what Bruno
Latour describes as the 'formidable discoveries of modernism, ' we
have come to share a world of material interdependence and
incessant communication, just at the time when the threat of
climate change gives desperate pathos to our common stewardship of
the planet. Latour speaks with urgency when he asks us all to set
aside the script of secular modernity--to stop insulting each other
and learn to pluralize, apologize and ecologize. We must prepare
ourselves for diplomacy, he says: we must talk to one another or
die.-- (01/10/2014)
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