Politics of Nature: How to bring the sciences into democracy by Bruno Latour, Harvard University Press, £16.95/$24.95, ISBN 0674013476
SOME time ago Bruno Latour visited Â鶹´«Ã½. “Ah, so this is where objectivity is manufactured,” he boomed. “I should like to watch you make it…” A couple of people, who had heard of him, put their heads in their hands and groaned. Others carried on innocently reporting newly discovered facts about the world, objectively.
Though that approach may sometimes be all very well in practice, it’ll never work in theory – philosophically or neurologically. If there were facts about a…
