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Bruno Latour
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“No one knows any longer whether the reintroduction of the bear in Pyrenees, kolkhozes, aerosols, the Green Revolution, the anti-smallpox vaccine, Star Wars, the Muslim religion, partridge hunting, the French Revolution, service industries, labour unions, cold fusion, Bolshevism, relativity, Slovak nationalism, commercial sailboats, and so on, are outmoded, up to date, futuristic, atemporal, nonexistent, or permanent.”
Bruno Latour (1947–2022) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruno Latour (1973; p.74), cited in: Ronald Schleifer, Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880–1930. 2000. p. 174
“What has happened to those who, like Heidegger, have tried to find their ways in immediacy, in intuition, in nature, would be too sad to retell—and is well known anyway. What is certain is that those pathmarks off the beaten track led indeed nowhere.”
Bruno Latour (1947–2022) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern” Critical Inquiry 30, (Winter 2004)
“The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and reality, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.”
Bruno Latour (1947–2022) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruno Latour in: The only shibboleth the West has is science, The Times of India, 4 April 2011.
“Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy. If there is one thing which philosophy should not do, it is to try to explain anything.”
Bruno Latour (1947–2022) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Peter Erdelyi. The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE. 2011. p.67
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more 'God' than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness, attention, contemplation, hesitation and revival. To understand each other, all we have is what comes from our hands, but that does not mean our hands have to be taken for the origin.”
Bruno Latour (1947–2022) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bruno Latour, Rejoicing: Or the Torments of Religious Speech. 2018, p. 144