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Bruno Latour

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Bruno Latour (born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist. [1]

101 relations: Actant, Actor–network theory, Aftenposten, Agency (sociology), Alfred North Whitehead, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Anthropology, Aramis (personal rapid transit), Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Émile Durkheim, Beaune, Blackboxing, Bordeaux, British Journal of Sociology, Burgundy, Côte-d'Or, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Climate change denial, Conspiracy theory, Contemporary philosophy, Continental philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, Double standard, Duke University Press, Empiricism, Eric Voegelin, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Fashionable Nonsense, Fetishism, François Rabelais University, Gabriel Tarde, Gaston Bachelard, Germany, Graphism thesis, Groupe des écoles des mines, Harold Garfinkel, Harvard University Press, Higher Superstition, Holberg Prize, Imperialism, Institut de recherche pour le développement, Isabelle Stengers, Ivory Coast, James R. Taylor, John Law (sociologist), John Searle, Jon Elster, Karlsruhe, Laboratory Life, ..., Legion of Honour, London School of Economics, Louis Pasteur, Mad scientist, Mapping controversies, Metaphysics, Michel Callon, Michel Serres, Mines ParisTech, MIT Press, Modernism, Monograph, Neuroendocrinology, Noretta Koertge, Obligatory passage point, Ontology, Organizational communication, Paris, Pedology, Philosophy of science, Politics of Nature, Postmodernism, Primatology, Princeton University Press, Relativism, SAGE Publications, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Science and technology studies, Science in Action (book), Science wars, Sciences Po, Scientific method, Semiotics, Skeptical Inquirer, Social construction of technology, Social constructionism, Sociology, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Steve Fuller (sociologist), Steve Woolgar, Technological determinism, Theology, Université de Montréal, University of Amsterdam, University of Chicago Press, We Have Never Been Modern, Western philosophy, Wiley-Blackwell, William James, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 9/11 Truth movement. Expand index (51 more) »

Actant

In narrative theory, actant is a term from the actantial model of semiotic analysis of narratives.

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Actor–network theory

Actor–network theory (ANT) is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly shifting networks of relationship.

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Aftenposten

Aftenposten (Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation.

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Agency (sociology)

In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

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Algirdas Julien Greimas

Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992), was a French-Lithuanian literary scientist, known among other things for the Greimas Square (le carré sémiotique).

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Aramis (personal rapid transit)

The Aramis was an experimental personal rapid transit (PRT) system developed in France for deployment in the Paris area.

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Aramis, or the Love of Technology

Aramis, or the Love of Technology, was written by French sociologist/anthropologist Bruno Latour.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist.

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Beaune

Beaune is the wine capital of Burgundy in the Côte d'Or department in eastern France.

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Blackboxing

In science studies, the social process of blackboxing is based on the abstract notion of a black box.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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British Journal of Sociology

The British Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Côte-d'Or

Côte-d'Or (literally, "golden slope") is a department in the eastern part of France.

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Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation

The Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI; "Center for the Sociology of Innovation") is a research center at the Mines Paristech, France.

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Climate change denial

Climate change denial, or global warming denial, is part of the global warming controversy.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Continental philosophy

Continental philosophy is a set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from mainland Europe.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Double standard

A double standard is the application of different sets of principles for similar situations.

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Duke University Press

Duke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals, and a unit of Duke University.

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Empiricism

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience.

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Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin (born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin;; January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a German-born American political philosopher.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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Ethnomethodology

Ethnomethodology is the study of methods people use for understanding and producing the social order in which they live.

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Fashionable Nonsense

Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Impostures Intellectuelles), published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.

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Fetishism

A fetish (derived from the French fétiche; which comes from the Portuguese feitiço; and this in turn from Latin facticius, "artificial" and facere, "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others.

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François Rabelais University

François Rabelais University (French: Université François-Rabelais) or University of Tours (Université de Tours), is a public university in Tours, France.

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Gabriel Tarde

Gabriel Tarde (in full Jean-Gabriel De Tarde; 12 March 1843 – 13 May 1904) was a French sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals (much as if it were chemistry), the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation.

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard (27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Graphism thesis

In sociology of science, the graphism thesis is a proposition of Bruno Latour that graphs are important in science.

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Groupe des écoles des mines

The Groupe des écoles des mines (GEM) is a group of 8 engineering schools.

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Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) was an American sociologist, ethnomethodologist, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Higher Superstition

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science is a 1994 book by biologist Paul R. Gross and mathematician Norman Levitt.

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Holberg Prize

The Holberg Prize is an international prize awarded annually by the government of Norway to outstanding scholars for work in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law and theology, either within one of these fields or through interdisciplinary work.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.

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Institut de recherche pour le développement

The French Research Institute for Development (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD) is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Higher Education and Research and Foreign Affairs.

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Isabelle Stengers

Isabelle Stengers (born 1949) is a Belgian philosopher, noted for her work in the philosophy of science.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.

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James R. Taylor

James Renwick Taylor (born in 1928), sometimes known as Jim Taylor is a Canadian academic and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication of the Université de Montréal, which he founded with Annie Méar and André H. Caron Ed.D in the early 1970s.

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John Law (sociologist)

John Law (born 16 May 1946), is a sociologist currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and key proponent of Actor-network theory.

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John Searle

John Rogers Searle (born 31 July 1932) is an American philosopher.

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Jon Elster

Jon Elster (born 22 February 1940, Oslo) is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory.

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Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe (formerly Carlsruhe) is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in southwest Germany, near the French-German border.

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Laboratory Life

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

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Mad scientist

Mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a caricature of a scientist who is described as "mad" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.

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Mapping controversies

Mapping controversies (MC) is an academic course taught in science studies, stemming from the writings of the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour.

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.

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Michel Callon

Michel Callon (born 1945) is a professor of sociology at the École des mines de Paris and member of the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation.

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Michel Serres

Michel Serres (born 1 September 1930) is a French philosopher and author.

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Mines ParisTech

MINES ParisTech (officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris in French or Paris School of Mines in English, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines Paris or simply les Mines), created in 1783 by King Louis XVI, is a French engineer school and a constituent college of Université PSL.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Monograph

A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author, and usually on a scholarly subject.

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Neuroendocrinology

Neuroendocrinology is the branch of biology (specifically of physiology) which studies the interaction between the nervous system and the endocrine system, that is how the brain regulates the hormonal activity in the body.

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Noretta Koertge

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Obligatory passage point

The concept of Obligatory passage point (OPP) was developed by sociologist Michel Callon in a seminal contribution to actor–network theory: Callon, Michel (1986), "Elements of a sociology of translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay".

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Ontology

Ontology (introduced in 1606) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

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Organizational communication

In communication studies, organizational communication is the study of communication within organizations.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pedology

Pedology (from Greek: πέδον, pedon, "soil"; and λόγος, logos, "study") is the study of soils in their natural environment.

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Philosophy of science

Philosophy of science is a sub-field of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.

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Politics of Nature

Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy (2004) is a book by the French theorist and philosopher of science Bruno Latour.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Primatology

Primatology is the scientific study of primates.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Relativism

Relativism is the idea that views are relative to differences in perception and consideration.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is an independent, non-profit, scientific research institute located in La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States.

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Science and technology studies

Science and technology studies, or science, technology and society studies (both abbreviated STS) is the study of how society, politics, and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture.

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Science in Action (book)

Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society is an influential book by Bruno Latour.

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Science wars

The science wars were a series of intellectual exchanges, between scientific realists and postmodernist critics, about the nature of scientific theory and intellectual inquiry.

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Sciences Po

The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Institut d'études politiques de Paris), commonly referred as Sciences Po, is a highly selective French university (legally a grande école).

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Scientific method

Scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition, which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century, involving careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what one observes, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept; formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental testing and measurement of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.

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Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Social construction of technology

Social construction of technology (also referred to as SCOT) is a theory within the field of Science and Technology Studies.

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Social constructionism

Social constructionism or the social construction of reality (also social concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared assumptions about reality.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Sociology of scientific knowledge

The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge.

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Steve Fuller (sociologist)

Steve William Fuller (born 12 July 1959) is an American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.

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Steve Woolgar

Stephen William Woolgar (born 14 February 1950) is a British sociologist.

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Technological determinism

Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal (UdeM) is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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University of Amsterdam

The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.

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We Have Never Been Modern

We Have Never Been Modern is a 1991 book by Bruno Latour, originally published in French as Nous n'avons jamais été modernes: Essai d'anthropologie symétrique (English translation: 1993).

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Founded in 1989, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is a cultural institution which, since 1997, has been located in a historical industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany that formerly housed a munitions factory.

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9/11 Truth movement

Adherents of the 9/11 Truth movement are conspiracy theorists who dispute the mainstream account of the September 11 attacks of 2001.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour

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