Monday, February 1, 2010

BRUNO LATOUR



BRUNO LATOUR (SOCIOLOGIST OF SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGIST). HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS BOOKS WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN (1991; ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 1993), LABORATORY LIFE (WITH STEVE WOOLGAR, 1979) AND SCIENCE IN ACTION (1987). ALONG WITH MICHEL CALLON AND JOHN LAW, LATOUR IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY DEVELOPERS OF ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT), A CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH INFLUENCED BY THE ETHNOMETHODOLOGY OF HAROLD GARFINKEL, THE GENERATIVE SEMIOTICS OF GREIMAS, AND (MORE RECENTLY) THE SOCIOLOGY OF DURKHEIM'S RIVAL GABRIEL TARDE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.

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