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Title: We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour, Catherine Porter, Catharine Porter ISBN: 0-674-94839-4 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: of course some people wouldn't like this book
Comment: i loved this book: it questions the idea of repeatability, which means that it questions the religion of science (as practiced by amateurs)and it shows you how language has served the impulse towards duplicity. the book also has a certain tongue-in-cheek wit about it, and that makes the ideas more interesting to read.
i can see where latour would make people nervous if they were fully invested in a point of view not fully understood. but, until the government takes down the bill of rights, diversity in thinking is still allowed and maybe even encouraged.
enjoy this book. it is fun.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, but hard to read
Comment: I'd like to think I'm not a dummy, but this was hard to read. It looks to me like the book was translated to English by someone who might know more about Anthropology than written communication. There were times when I felt that maybe it had been run through Babblefish.
Dissing of the translator aside, the author assumes the reader is completely knowlegable of all the apparently pretty divisions and differences in opinions between one group of scientists and another. Man I could care less, unless it leads to an advancement of a science, and I wasn't convinced. But maybe because I didn't care.
There were times where I felt that a greater service would have been done if the soap opera would have been skipped.
That said, the book contains some insightful and thought provoking ideas on how societies view each other and themselves. I found some concepts a powerful catalyst in my design efforts.
Rating: 2
Summary: It only takes a French accent...
Comment: Anglophone readers probably don't realise that Latour meant this book as a tongue-in-cheek exercise to capture the postmodern social theory market in his own country by using a postmodern style to show what an illusion postmodernism has always been. But, as fate would have it, when someone sneezes in Paris, an Anglophone is felled with pneumonia. It's hard to believe that anyone with a firm grasp of the history of the last 250 years of Western culture would find this book anything more than a diversion worthy of maybe a couple of arguments in the pub. It's telling that historians of science, who are really the people who are in a position to hold Latour accountable to anything he says here, have given the book a chilly reception. Classify this one under 'Pseud's Corner'.
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Title: Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies by Bruno Latour ISBN: 067465336X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society by Bruno Latour ISBN: 0674792912 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Jonas Salk ISBN: 069102832X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge by K. Knorr-Cetina, Karin Knorr Cetina ISBN: 0674258940 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Stephen Shapin, Simon Schaffer ISBN: 0691024324 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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