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Bruno Latour and the Ontological Dissolution of Nature in the Social Sciences: A Critical Review
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Politiques de la nature. Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie: La Découverte, coll. « Armillaire , 1999, 383 p., 145 F.
TL;DR: In this paper, Latour proposes a new facon de considerer l'ecologie politique, i.e., separating the science and the politique by separating the nature from the social sciences.
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In Wildness Is the Liberation of the World: On Maroon Ecology and Partisan Nature
TL;DR: In this article, a case can be made for a progressive, cosmopolitan, Marxist view of wilderness as a space less fully subjugated to capital than others, and what we lose in a rapidly warming world where the remotest and supposedly wildest corners of the world are among the first to be destroyed.
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Disenfranchised Violent Young Offenders in Scotland: Using Actor-Network Theory to Explore an Aetiology of Knife Crime
TL;DR: In this article, actor-network theory was used to describe the aetiology of violent knife crime in the UK from government and media, and the authors used Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to theorise and describe it.
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The Dying Planet Index: Life, Death and Man's Domination of Nature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring together some of the key problems in environmental values for the twenty-first century, including the potential for domination and exploitation of others, the role of humans in construction and manipulation of the world around them, and how to counter the values of male authoritarianism and cold blooded violence to others.
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We Have Never Been Modern
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
TL;DR: Simians, Cyborgs and Women as mentioned in this paper is a collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989 by Haraway that analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs.
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
Bruno Latour,Steve Woolgar +1 more
TL;DR: The authors presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist, drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change.
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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
TL;DR: A collection of classic essays written throughout Popper's illustrious career, expounding and defending his 'fallibilist' theory of knowledge and scientific discovery.
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Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
TL;DR: The critical spirit of the humanities has run out of steam as discussed by the authors and the critical spirit might not be aiming at the right target, which is a concern of ours as a whole.