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04.30.06

FAQ

Bruno Latour has the best set of FAQs I’ve ever seen on an academic home page. You really should go look — it’s the last item on the sidebar, assuming you prefer to read in English.

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Way cool. Just yesterday I was reading an article in which he was explaining how an uncritical skepticism of facticity gets us into trouble we don't want to be in, as when conspiracy theorists co-opt social constructionism. So it's pretty interesting to read his FAQ in light of that article:
Latour, Bruno. "Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern." Critical Inquiry 30.2 (Winter 2004): 225-248.
I hadn't realized that "social construction" had been expunged from the 2nd ed of LL.