Bruno Latour
French anthropologist and philosopher who blended science studies with ethnography in actor-network theory.
Most quoted
"The laboratory is the only place where the distinction between subject and object is suspended."
— from Laboratory Life, 1979
"In the age of ecology, we need to rethink the separation between facts and values."
— from Politics of Nature, 2004
"Facts are robust only when they are supported by a dense network of other facts."
— from Science in Action, 1987
All quotes by Bruno Latour (100)
We have never been modern.
The more we are interconnected, the more we are local.
Science is politics pursued by other means.
Facts are robust only when they are supported by a dense network of other facts.
The question is not whether we are modern or not, but how we are modern.
To be modern is to believe that one is modern.
There is no such thing as society, only societies.
The world is not made of things, but of relations.
Objects are not mute; they speak through us.
The Earth is not a stage, but an actor.
We are all hybrids.
The more we know, the more we realize how little we know.
To understand is to simplify.
The social is not a given, but a constantly reassembled achievement.
The moderns have always been in a state of war.
There is no outside of the text.
The world is not a collection of facts, but a network of actants.
The truth is not out there; it is made.
We are not just observers; we are participants.
The political is not a separate sphere, but an aspect of all activity.
Contemporaries of Bruno Latour
Other Anthropologys born within 50 years of Bruno Latour (1947–2022).