The present backlash in ecological politics comes from an almost total disconnect between the size and extension in space and time of the issues and the institution of politics in charge of representing them to the eyes of those in charge of making decisions. There is thus a great interest in devising instruments able to represent and make accessible to the senses the issues at hand. The great novelty of such an extension of our sensibility is that they should come from arts as well as from science thus extending the definition of aesthetics. The lecture will review some of the instruments especially those around the mapping of controversies.
Speaker
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour was trained first as a philosopher and then as an anthropologist. From 1982 to 2006, he has been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the history of science department of Harvard University.
He is now professor at Sciences Po Paris, where he is also the vice-president for research.
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia - Italia - Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia - Italia -
14 Sep 2012
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