Julius N. (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cinamonas) wrote,@ 2004-12-26 19:53:00 |
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Bruno Latour, born in 1947 in Beaune, Burgundy, from a wine grower family, was trained first as a philosopher and then an anthropologist.After field studies in Africa and California he specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management. He has written Laboratory Life the construction of scientific facts (Princeton University Press), Science in Action, and The Pasteurization of France (both at Harvard University Press). He also published a field study on an automatic subway system Aramis or the love of technology and an essay on symmetric anthropology We have never been modern (both with Harvard and now translated in 22 languages). With the same publisher, he also published a series of essays, Pandora's Hope:Essays in the Reality of Science Studies.
[1] Presentation of Iconoclash -|- site
[2] An Imaginary dialogue on Modernity - cia
