Saturday, March 14, 2009

Excellent review of Latour's Science in Action

I'm attaching this review of Latour's Science in Action, by Olga Amsterdamska, because it expresses so eloquently precisely what I was trying to convey in my claim in class that Latour's whole argument rests on an obfuscation of whether he is talking about "nature" or "nature's representation", as in Rule of Method #3. Moreover, she actually unpacks the logic behind this equivalency, and demonstrates how it is a repeated mode of argumentation throughout the book. Now I just have to think of something to write myself!

Edit: Dang, I can't see how to upload a pdf, which would probably violate copyright anyways. Here is the ref:

Olga Amsterdamska, "Review: Surely You Are Joking, Monsieur Latour!" in Science, Technology, & Human Values, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 495-504.
Available on JSTOR.

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