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I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.

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The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

Bruno Latour

A fact is what is collectively stabilised from the midst of controversies when the activity of later papers does not consist only of criticism or deformation but also of confirmation.

Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour

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Born: June 22, 1947

Died: October 9, 2022 (aged 75)

Bio: Bruno Latour was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist of science. He was especially known for his work in the field of Science and Technology Studies.

Known for:

We Have Never Been Modern (1991)
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence (2013)
Laboratory Life (1979)
Reassembling the Social (2005)
Science in Action (1987)

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