I can’t disagree with the anger and disappointment that is being expressed — I feel those too. “Let’s try to see if we can imagine in advance what we want to keep (...) and what we want to stop”, Latour said. Read our COVID-19 research and news. Search Results: 8 found (sorted by format) ... argued at Christianity Today that advocating for the prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination for incarcerated people could save many lives—and is the Christian thing to do. Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08.26 EDT. Capitalism, as we know, is very good at connecting and playing to our desires. This seems to me to be the biggest issue today when it comes to what one might call a “leftist” or “environmentalist” imagination: the proposed solutions, of which there really aren’t very many in the first place, seem austere and not very attractive. Advertisement. Designs that deliberately aim for product/service adoption first, but that then deeply resist profit-taking and appropriation by those seeking to accumulate wealth or power. Bruno Latour, a philosopher and anthropologist, is the author of We Have Never Been Modern, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Facing Gaia, Down to Earth, and many other books. Just as people around the world have been asked to adopt new behaviours to stop the spread of the virus - social distancing, wearing masks, coughing in your sleeve - Latour says all individuals should think of “protective measures” against a return to the pre-crisis production model. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: "Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks." So I have to drive. With new infections slowing, the government announced this week that a gradual easing of its nearly two-month lockdown would start from Monday - signalling a slow return to business as usual. The coronavirus is a rapidly developing news story, so some of the content in this article might be out of date. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Since January 2018 he is for two years fellow at the Zentrum fur Media Kunst (ZKM) and professor at the HfG both in Karlsruhe. As a researcher myself, I think it’s good practice. I’m thinking along the “open source” spectrum of work, but maybe a little further. Wherever revolutions or similar popular uprisings have occurred in recent times — Ukraine, Chile, Venezuela, the “Arab Spring,” Hong Kong, the list is long — the results are either that the prevailing capitalist system is delighted and reinvigorated (after all, it thrives on crises), or some kind of further slide into authoritarianism — or both. So why not build new experiences that facilitate great remote work (for example), or a different kind of travel, or different kinds of energy generation/distribution, or new kinds of agriculture, etc. Share this event with your friends. We need to explore ways of eliminating our deeply ingrained cultural assumption that being remote is worse than “being there.” There is some interesting theoretical work on this that was done in the early 1990s in the human-computer interaction field, discussing telecommunications product design. He has issued a questionnaire on his website, translated into at least a dozen languages, asking people to describe how they would like the world to evolve, what they want to be definitely dropped or what should be developed. The challenge, then, is to develop experiences that are as good as — or even better than — those capitalism provides so effectively. Latour, 72, says the pandemic has unexpectedly showed it is possible to shut down global economic activity, despite leaders saying for decades that the train of progress could not be stopped. Bruno Latour is now emeritus professor associated with the médialab and the program in political arts (SPEAP) of Sciences Po Paris. The exercise allowed me to articulate some previously disconnected ideas that had been swirling around my head in the last few weeks, and I thought the result was worth capturing separately here. However, unfortunately, I live in Canada and my closest relatives in Germany and Australia, respectively. Rather it turns out that one shows us the character of the other with horrific lucidity. And these products and services have now structured our assumptions of what satisfying experiences should be like. It would save me money and stress if I could do most or all of my work from home. As a long-term climate activist, he’s noted that the pandemic has forced us to take collective action, rather on a dime and on an unprecedented scale. So I found myself typing responses which ended up being slightly more elaborate than I had originally imagined. Like you, I’ve read enough history to know that revolutions, by and large, seem fundamentally unattractive — both as historical moments to live through (no thanks) and to actually precipitate lasting change. It crackles and it chirps. The renowned French philosopher of science suggests that the coronavirus emergency should be … From 1982 to 2006, he was a professor at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris and has held visiting professorships at UCSD , the London School of Economics and in the History of Science department at Harvard Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. I think we have many, many people now whose entire schooling and work experience has been about optimizing capitalist experiences for profit. Bruno Latour The unforeseen coincidence between a general confinement and the period of Lent is still quite welcome for those who have been asked, out of solidarity, to do nothing and to remain at a distance from the battle front. Lo más visto en EL PAÍS » Top 50. What follows are my responses to Mr. Latour’s writing prompts, edited for clarity and expanded where necessary. But in the last ten to fifteen years, the internet has done far more to make the world think like Americans than Marvel movies.” https://buff.ly/2KZ4J6E, “Most office activity will not move to homes or to the cloud but is likely to be redistributed within and between cities, with a variety of new employment areas popping up and saving many people the trouble of commuting to a central business district.” https://buff.ly/2X4ODLg, “Buying just about anything already felt like a moral conundrum. French philosopher Bruno Latour, a life-long environmental activist, is advocating just this, inviting people to resist a return to the old ways as governments ease restrictions. Bruno Latour forecasts the future. High rents and housing prices in cities because everyone needs to live in the city in order to be close to work. We could develop better ways of thinking about, and practicing, online work collaboration. Among the firsts was an essay by Bruno Latour, inviting us to address the current pandemic as a ‘dress rehearsal’ that incites us to prepare for climate change. back to what it used to be in the 1980s. So in that sense, when people say we cannot do anything, it’s clearly wrong,” Latour told Reuters in an interview. Bruno Latour (translated from French by Stephen Muecke) Perhaps it is a little inappropriate to project oneself into the post-crisis, just when the health workers are, as they say, ‘on the front line’, while millions of people lose their jobs and while many grieving families are not even able to bury their dead. Treating Covid-19 as a kind of design probe or prototype is certainly an ambiguous undertaking in the sense that a highly infectious and thus far untreatable virus is perhaps more tragedy than opportunity. Bruno Latour is the recipient of the Holberg Memorial Prize for 2013 and the Siegfried Unseld Prize in 2008. Its inherent dynamics are what fuels it, and their purpose is for one group to accumulate more resources than everybody else. Bruno Latour. UBI is like that: we don’t consider it seriously while the economy is in “good” shape (and we could therefore afford to start it), and when things go badly, we say we can’t afford to think about it. Bruno Latour (Beaune, ... son más necesarias que nunca para ayudar a las familias y los colectivos más vulnerables por la irrupción de la covid-19. However, he noted that the scale of changes and decisions to be made to stem climate change are “many times more complicated and more drastic than the ones we have (with the coronavirus)”. I n the early days of the lockdown, philosopher Bruno Latour wrote an essay for the AOC cultural online newspaper. I feel less certain about international travel. Richard Horton argues that combination prevention and global health collaboration are required to address the COVID-19 pandemic.1 We agree and suggest this should incorporate further measures. With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. Universal basic income makes sense in theory, of course, but always fails in practice — it’s similar to how consumers think about insurance: you never think you need it until something catastrophic happens. 3/4 What kinds of measures do you advocate so that workers/employees/ agents/entrepreneurs, who can no longer continue in the activities that you have eliminated, are able to facilitate the transition to other activities? Covid-19 news: Third England lockdown could last until March; Should you avoid alcohol when getting a coronavirus vaccine? Those of us working in the space between technology and society would need to work on re-setting the horizon of our collective imaginations around this. There isn’t sufficient public transit to get me there within a “reasonable” time frame due to lack of train routes and time required. Latour’s call echoes a study published on Tuesday in which a group of top U.S. and British economists said massive programmes of public investment targeting green issues would be the most cost-effective way to both revive economies and strike a decisive blow against climate change. One way is to stop buying the things we don’t want. 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You can fill in your own responses here: https://ouatterrir.medialab.sciences-po.fr/#/. Photograph: Robin Palmer/Alamy Stock Photo. I have been trying to work “less” (fewer hours per week) for a few years now (I’m a freelance consultant). This would deter people from traveling on a whim, or too frequently. Imagining and making the future are likely one and the same — and it has to start right now. The power of the consumer is immense”. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word social as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it … Generally, the objective of “activism” and/or “innovation” in this space should probably be to develop “new normals” and field-test them to see if, in time, they begin to no longer feel like “less than” what we used to have. (It is also possible that what you want to stop may put you in trouble as well). “Maybe, if it works, we’ll link them to groups of people who can actually (...) stop something”, he said, adding, “Can we do it politically? Bruno Latour. However, I also think we could increase the price of air travel (maybe through regulation/law?) I imagine there are many professionals like myself right now who are wondering what good their skills and experiences might do to move things in a more positive direction. I need to commute from where I live to a client’s office approximately twice per week, 100km each way. Bruno Latour is a distinguished philosopher and an anthropologist. It’s not just about what we can do right now (during the pandemic), but more generally: now that I can see where things should be headed, how can I contribute to that? I’m too old to see some kind of romantic promise in a socialist revolution. And I think the Covid-19 crisis may have woken up some of them to the possibility that they need to re-deploy their knowledge and skills. If you follow me on Twitter, it’ll be no secret that in the last few years I’ve become more actively interested in politics again. At the same time, I also know that there is a distinction to be made between skill and purpose — that it is quite possible to apply good design methodology in ways that result in equitably designed products and services that don’t necessarily perpetuate wealth or power asymmetries. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? It whistles and it whoops. Coronavirus et pandémie de Covid-19 ; Bruno Latour : « La crise sanitaire incite à se préparer à la mutation climatique » Tribune. Traffic jams on highways and in the city. That said, Latour does not overstate the importance of his initiative. It would also leave more free time to do other things. To be clear, this would be done as a transitional model, not to “rescue” the capitalist system into an ever more insane future, but as a way to gradually enter into some kind of controlled interregnum between the present-day system and an unknown future which we cannot yet clearly imagine — and whose properties we’ve not been able to articulate (and this fact is always held against us, as if our inability to fully imagine an unknown future invalidates its possible coming-into-existence a priori). Weltempfang The World After: Bruno Latour and Hartmut Rosa on the consequences of the coronavirus crisis Back. He is especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS). We have known for a long time that air travel is massively wasteful and a huge contributor to the climate crisis. It gurgles, chatters, squeaks and flows in liquid waves of sound.” https://buff.ly/3n5TqXv. This reconsideration is also at the centre of Bruno Latour’s response to the pandemic. Thinking closely in terms of medical solutions could create false public expectations of a return to normal, and risks closing out non-health interventions that could lead to substantial … My own work is in strategy, innovation, product management, design and technology. It’s both a conceptual and practical problem. Going shopping all the time for things we only need a few times per year. Capitalism, as in all things, hasn’t delivered an even distribution of internet access for all populations (even though universal access would actually create the conditions for increased overall commercial activity, but the system is too fragmented to play a long game). — and initially do so in ways that focus on “high quality” experiences in the sense that we’re used to? Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the social. Cátedra Alfonso Reyes. Hosted by. With very few exceptions, most “things” could theoretically be bought online and delivered to the home, provided the risk of returning things was relatively low. I have lingering ideas that being in the same physical space as others offers a “richer” way of interacting, but I’m actually not sure that’s the case.
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