Efter en upptagen men härlig sommar börjar jag äntligen få lite tid över till att uppdatera mig om den facklitterära världen, och går det att få en bättre start än att se att Bruno Latour precis släppt
en ny bok? (Troligtvis inte.)
Latours nya verk heter
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns och beskrivs så här:
The result of a twenty five years inquiry, it offers a positive version
to the question raised, only negatively, with the publication, in 1991,
of ''We have never been modern'': if ''we'' have never been modern, then
what have ''we'' been? From what sort of values should ''we'' inherit?
In order to answer this question, a research protocol has been
developed that is very different from the actor-network theory. The
question is no longer only to define ''associations'' and to follow
networks in order to redefine the notion of ''society'' and ''social''
(as in ''Reassembling the Social'') but to follow the different types of
connectors that provide those networks with their specific tonalities.
Those modes of extension, or modes of existence, account for the many
differences between law, science, politics, and so on. This systematic
effort for building a new philosophical anthropology offers a completely
different view of what the ''Moderns'' have been and thus a very
different basis for opening a comparative anthropology with the other
collectives - at the time when they all have to cope with ecological
crisis.
För den som inte kan hålla sig utan direkt vill fördjupa sig går det att läsa första kapitlet samt innehållsförteckningen på Latours
egna hemsida.
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