Month: November 2013

  • 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…

  • Digital media, new social movements and the cosmopolitarian subject

    By Javier de Rivera The social movements of 2011 have put the political relevance of social media on the front page of social analysis. From a discourse based on the marketing marvelousness of the Web 2.0, the “prosumer” and new business possibilities, we passed in just a few months to talk about political revolutions (in…