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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There was an error in the information I sent out yesterday. Note
that the Talk is Monday, February 22, not Tuesday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
sci-tech-public-bounces@MIT.EDU [mailto:sci-tech-public-bounces@MIT.EDU] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>David Mindell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> sci-tech-public@MIT.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Sci-tech-public] Bruno Latour Talk Feb. 22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>MIT
Department of Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>HTC Forum: Reassembly<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Spring 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Bruno Latour<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Can
nature be recomposed? A few issues in cosmopolitics<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>with
an introduction by Vincent Lepinay<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and
a response by Mark Jarzombek<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Monday</span></b><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>, February 22<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>6:30
pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Room
3-133<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is now
clear thanks both to the work of anthropologists like Descola and the various
ecological crisis, that the notion of nature had the great defect of unifying
too quickly the composition of the common world. Is there an alternative that
pays full justice to the reality of nature without bypassing the work of
assembling it?<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Bruno Latour is Professor and vice-president for research at the </span></i><i><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
In his books, he explores the consequences of science studies on different
traditional topics in the social sciences. He has curated the exhibitions
“Iconoclash beyond the image wars in science, religion and art,” and “Making
Things Public The atmospheres of democracy” (with Peter Weibel).<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Vincent
Lepinay is Assistant Professor at MIT”S Program in Science, Technology, and
Society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mark
Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, and Associate
Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><br>
</span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>HTC
Thomas Beischer Lecture, co-sponsored with the MIT Program in Science,
Technology, and Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Aviaries, missiles, archives and satellites. This semester’s HTC
Forum, Reassembly<i>, </i>deals with taking apart and reconfiguring objects,
environments, publics, and matters of concern. </span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Organized by the History,
Theory, and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art with the generous support
of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>For information about this and
other forum events, please contact: <a href="mailto:htc@mit.edu">htc@mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>HTC Forum events are free and
open to the public. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Organized by the History, Theory,
and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art at MIT with the generous support
of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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