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)
Technology is society made durable.
The factish is the hybrid of fact and fetish.
We are facing Gaia, not dominating it.
Critique should assemble rather than deconstruct.
Diplomacy is needed for the new climate regime.
The social sciences need to include non-humans.
Love is a mode of existence, like science or law.
The moderns have invented a separation that doesn't hold.
To explain is to follow the actors.
The planet is telling us to stay put.
Art is a way to make the invisible visible.
In the lab, facts are negotiated, not discovered.
We need a new covenant with the Earth.
Society is not the whole; it's the connections.
The critic must become a composer.
Non-humans have rights too, in a way.
Life is a process of attachment and detachment.
The future is not what it used to be; it's terrestrial.
Humor in science: sometimes the experiment laughs back.
In the end, we are all connected through our mistakes.
Contemporaries of Bruno Latour
Other Anthropologys born within 50 years of Bruno Latour (1947–2022).