[Sci-tech-public] Bruno Latour Talk Feb. 22

[David Mindell]

MIT Department of Architecture

HTC Forum: Reassembly

Spring 2010

 

Bruno Latour

 

Can nature be recomposed? A few issues in cosmopolitics

 

with an introduction by Vincent Lepinay

and a response by Mark Jarzombek

 

Tuesday, February 22

6:30 pm

Room 3-133

 

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?

 

Bruno Latour is Professor and vice-president for research at the 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).

 

Vincent Lepinay is Assistant Professor at MIT”S Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. 

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, and
Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning.


HTC Thomas Beischer Lecture, co-sponsored with the MIT Program in Science,
Technology, and Society.

 

 

Aviaries, missiles, archives and satellites. This semester’s HTC Forum,
Reassembly, deals with taking apart and reconfiguring objects, environments,
publics, and matters of concern. Organized by the History, Theory, and
Criticism Program of Architecture and Art with the generous support of the
Lipstadt-Stieber Fund.

 

 

For information about this and other forum events, please contact:
htc at mit.edu

HTC Forum events are free and open to the public. 

Organized by the History, Theory, and Criticism Program of Architecture and
Art at MIT with the generous support of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund.

 

 

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