Category Archives: Latour

Latour on factishes and belief

Posted on July 20, 2010 by

Before moving on to work on Spinoza and the concept of aberrant monism, I want to add one more post on Latour. I hope that between this and previous posts there may emerge a relatively coherent picture of my reading … Continue reading →

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Events and Objects (à la Latour)

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

In We Have Never Been Modern, Latour adopts a cartographic metaphor to explain the stabilization of the Nature-Society duality from unstable events, or the trajectory from A” to D” marks, as Latour puts it, ‘the gradient that registers variations in … Continue reading →

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Latour, Whitehead, and Chaosmos

Posted on July 4, 2010 by

Where Latour and Whitehead most clearly converge is in their emphasis upon events, and in particular with their understanding of events as always exceeding themselves. Latour has developed this line of thinking in numerous works, but most notably in We … Continue reading →

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Marx or Tarde

Posted on July 2, 2010 by

In a post over at Bogost’s blog there’s an interesting discussion of Marx. I think it is correct to say one is not a Marxist if by that one means that Latour is not a Marxist. Latour is explicit on … Continue reading →

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Is Deleuze a Speculative Realist?

Posted on June 25, 2010 by

At first it might seem he is. If Bruno Latour is on the right track with respect to speculative realism, as Graham Harman and others would argue, then it might seem that Deleuze is on the right track as well … Continue reading →

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