{"title":"Bruno Latour","description":"\u003cp\u003eBruno Latour's works challenge conventional boundaries between science, politics, and philosophy, offering profound insights into how we understand the modern world. His writing explores the intricate relationships between humans, technology, and the environment, inviting readers to reconsider the foundations of knowledge and society in an era of ecological and social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes such as ecology, modernity, and the emergence of new social realities, Latour's books provoke thought on the urgent questions of our time. Whether examining scientific practices or the politics of climate, his distinctive approach blends philosophy and current affairs to deepen our understanding of how we inhabit the Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"if-we-lose-the-earth-we-lose-our-souls-by-bruno-latour-9781509560462","title":"If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, \u003cem\u003eIf We Lose the Earth, We Lose Our Souls\u003c\/em\u003e, Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from earth system science—one where the myriad beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new image of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the sciences, politics, and religion, just as, in earlier centuries, the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo upset the old order. Latour sees the ecological crisis, and the cosmological mutation it entails, as an opportunity to convey anew the tradition of Christianity to the largest possible audience, by bringing to bear the lessons of eschatology on the great crisis that looms before us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833174479084,"sku":"9781509560462","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12626873482725.jpg?v=1758444164"},{"product_id":"science-in-action-by-bruno-latour-9780674792913","title":"Science in Action","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScience in Action\u003c\/em\u003e by Bruno Latour explores the significant authority and influence that science and technology hold in our society, while acknowledging that their workings remain largely misunderstood. In recent years, our conventional perception of science in Western societies has been reshaped by contributions from philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Latour integrates these various approaches to offer a lively and challenging analysis of science. He illustrates how both social context and technical content are crucial to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasising that science is best understood through its practice, the author delves into aspects such as the role of scientific literature, laboratory activities, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the processes through which inventions and discoveries gain acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his study of scientific practice, Latour develops an analysis of science as the construction of networks. Throughout the book, he presents a dynamic and realistic depiction of science in action, challenging our conception not only of the natural sciences but also of the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis stimulating book, rich with examples from a wide array of scientific activities, will captivate philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science, as well as scientists, engineers, and students interested in the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854821839084,"sku":"9780674792913","price":73.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6e3d5719b10c1ec8d89be0c6a7c71b9f.jpg?v=1759264442"},{"product_id":"an-inquiry-into-modes-of-existence-by-bruno-latour-9780674984028","title":"An Inquiry into Modes of Existence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated—a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a climate scientist challenged by a captain of industry to appeal to the \u003cem\u003einstitution\u003c\/em\u003e of science, with its army of researchers and mountains of data, rather than to \"capital-S Science\" as a higher authority. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuch modes of extension—or modes of existence, Latour argues here—account for the many differences between law, science, politics, and other domains of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagnificent An Inquiry into Modes of Existence\u003c\/em\u003e shows that Latour has lost none of his astonishing fertility as a thinker, or his skill and wit as a writer. Latour's main message—that rationality is 'woven from more than one thread'—is intended not just for the academic seminar, but for the public square—and the public square today is global as never before. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Jonathan Rée, Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLatour's work makes the world—sorry, worlds—interesting again.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—Stephen Muecke, Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000539365612,"sku":"9780674984028","price":61.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8342163482428.jpg?v=1763282588"},{"product_id":"we-have-never-been-modern-by-bruno-latour-9780674948396","title":"We Have Never Been Modern","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour's analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming—and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture—and so, between our culture and others, past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape, \u003cem\u003eWe Have Never Been Modern\u003c\/em\u003e blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000839684332,"sku":"9780674948396","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7985843482428.jpg?v=1763309219"},{"product_id":"how-to-inhabit-the-earth-by-bruno-latour-9781509559473","title":"How to Inhabit the Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realise that all life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only a few kilometres thick – what scientists call the ‘critical zone’. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are transforming is now at risk, and if we wish to survive as a species, we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our connection to living beings, and face head-on the confrontation between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth’s resources and the ecologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis poignant reflection on the greatest challenge of our time was also an opportunity for Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Inhabit the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e by Bruno Latour addresses urgent environmental issues with clarity, urging a reconsideration of our relationship with the planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362624061676,"sku":"9781509559473","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12616983482725.jpg?v=1772898123"},{"product_id":"after-lockdown-by-bruno-latour-9781509550029","title":"After Lockdown","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis – that brought about by the New Climate Regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLearning to live in lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we – inhabitants of the earth – live, what kind of place ‘earth’ is and how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come. We might finally be able to explore the land in which we live, together with all other living beings, begin to understand the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and discover what kind of freedom is possible – a freedom differently situated and differently understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this sequel to his bestselling book \u003ci\u003eDown to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruno Latour provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives, outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which we are living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470030291180,"sku":"9781509550029","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509550029-after-lockdown.jpg?v=1775207688"},{"product_id":"on-the-emergence-of-an-ecological-class-by-nikolaj-schultz-9781509555062","title":"On the Emergence of an Ecological Class","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism and other political ideologies have done at various times and places? What can ecology learn from history about how new political movements emerge, and how they win the struggle for ideas long before they translate their ideas into parties and elections?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this short text, consisting of seventy-six talking points, Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz argue that if the ecological movement is to gain ideological consistency and autonomy it must offer a political narrative that recognises, embraces and effectively represents its project in terms of social conflict. Political ecology must accept that it brings along division. 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This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalisation into a nightmare for most people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretence at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organised along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalisation, just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. 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