Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993) with guest Lynda Olman.

What's the "modern" ideology of science, and is there something we should critique about it? Latour wants us to think about science not abstractly through the eternal truths it supposedly discovers, but through the concrete practices of scientists. He investigates the Modern Constitution by which science and politics are kept conceptually separate, a myth that he claims we've never fully bought into.

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0:00.0	The Partial Examined Life relies on your support.
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0:05.4	please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com slash support.
0:16.4	You're listening to Partial Examined Life, a podcast by some guys
0:19.2	who are at one point set on doing philosophy
0:20.9	for living with them thought better of it.
0:22.8	Our question for episode 230 is something like
0:26.0	what is the relationship between science and politics
0:28.9	and we read,
0:29.7	We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno LeTour from 1993.
0:33.5	This is Mark Lentz and my proud member of the Parliament of Things
0:36.6	in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:37.9	This is Seth Paskin, potentially pre-modern, possibly anti-modern,
0:42.1	or maybe non-modern in Austin, Texas.
0:44.8	This is Wes Alwin in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:47.2	This is Dylan Casey, hybridized in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:51.2	This is Linda Oman, I'm a professor of English
0:53.0	at the University of Nevada, Reno,
0:55.0	and I am probably solidly a hybrid.
0:59.8	Did you take the online quiz?
1:01.3	Oh yeah, that's right.
1:02.6	It was even the narcissist quiz or the hybrid quiz
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