Latour is not at war with the sciences...

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> On 31 Oct 2018, at 14:04, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU!,,,,
> 
> just two immediate associational thoughts without knowing more about Latour
> than this.
> 1) Pynchon-related: one can see his 'solution' as anti-binary, as P's deep
> use of that conceit/insight allows. (And we loved 'gravity' here,
> right?, a fully-formed hugely created "fact". I remember when I was a young
> bookseller, there was a huge---Vollman-sized; Proust-sized--
> textbook on GRAVITY that was an assigned or recommended book in some
> physics classes or other. I remember thinking: how could there be
> so much to say? it is what it is...
>                A) Why couldn't his publisher call his book; CONSTRUCTING
> GRAVITY and a Rainbow of other 'facts"?
> 
> 2) Wittgenstein's concept of 'forms of life" spreads into materiality, so
> to very loosely metaphorize.
> 
> I would have been so angry at you had I missed this forever. Smile.
> 
> Now, should I order the book? Or an earlier one?
> 
> Every fact is a dilemma, so to speak.
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 7:35 AM jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I had to contain my ADD to finish this longish examination of the most
>> recent activity of Bruno Latour. It was well worth it.
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html
>> 
>> j
>> 
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