Tag: latour

  • David Bloor\’s \”Anti-Latour\” and the discussion

    By Javier de Rivera  This article is about the controversy between David Bloor and Bruno Latour in 1999, when Bloor wrote an article called “Anti-Latour”, in which he defended the approach of the Sociology of Knowledge against Latour\’s philosophy, and Latour retorted with a text titled \”For David Bloor… and Beyond: A Reply to David…

  • Non-human agency, but human after all

      By Javier de Rivera This paper, HUMAN AFTER ALL, overviews some issues addressed in Johanna Drucker\’s PhD seminar in Information Studies at UCLA (Spring 2013)  around the topic of New Materialisms. In it, I critique and argue against the influence of Latour\’s philosophy on some authors of New Materialisms and of some accounts of…