Science & Technology Studies
Bruno Latour
The Anthropologist of How We Know What We Know
Where to Start Reading
Laboratory Life (with Steve Woolgar)
Latour's ethnography of a biology lab — he studied scientists the way anthropologists study remote communities. Provocative, accessible, and the book that made his reputation.
We Have Never Been Modern
Latour's most philosophical work — the argument that the separation between nature and culture, science and politics, was always an illusion. Short, dense, and paradigm-shifting.
Down to Earth
Latour on the politics of climate change — his most urgent and accessible book. The argument that ecological crisis is not an environmental issue but a political one. 100 pages.
“Nothing is, by itself, either reducible or irreducible to anything else.”