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R.i.p., Bruno Latour

Posted in Eco-theory, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2022 | 1 Comment »

Hearing the announcement of Bruno Latour‘s death earlier today, I remembered his visit to the Feverish World symposium, which I co-organized in 2018 in Burlington, Vermont. Despite his health (which was turning for the worse at the time), he participated gracefully in this strange mixture of conference, festival, and street event, and gave a great […]

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New Earths to come

Posted in Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 15, 2021 | 2 Comments »

Reading Nigel Clark and Bron Szerszynski’s just published Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences is helping me think through what I see as perhaps the key philosophical debate of the current time. That debate is over the “ontological politics” of the difference between science in its theory and practice — including […]

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The Damore-Google dust-up

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2017 | 12 Comments »

Here I go wading into a type of debate this blog does not often venture into: the debate surrounding Google employee James Damore’s firing for his ‘Ideological Echo Chamber’ manifesto. I find this to be a complicated and interesting conversation, and I’m curious to know how my thoughts align with others.

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