Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour (1947) is a sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action.

Works

(in French unless noted)

• Les Microbes: guerre et paix, suivi de Irréductions, Paris: A.-M. Métaillé; La Découverte, 2001.
  • The Pasteurization of France, trans. A. Sheridan and J. Law, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988; 1993. (English)

• with Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts, Sage, 1979; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. (English)
  • La Vie de laboratoire. La production des faits scientifiques, Paris: La Découverte, 1988.
  • La vida en el laboratorio. La construcción de los hechos científicos, trans. Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1995. (Spanish)
  • A vida de laboratório: a produção dos fatos científicos, trans. Angela Ramalho Vianna, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumara, 1997. (Portuguese)

• Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987. (English)
  • Ciencia en acción. Cómo seguir a los científicos e ingenieros a través de la sociedad, trans. Eduardo Aibar, Roberto Méndez and Estela Ponisio, Barcelona: Aragó, 1992. (Spanish)
  • Ciência em ação: como seguirdentistas e engenheiros sociedade afora, trans. Ivone C. Benedettí, Sao Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2000. (Portuguese)

• Face à Gaïa. Huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatique, Paris: La Découverte, 1991, re-print, 2015, EPUB. [1]

• Nous n'avons jamais été modernes. Essai d’anthropologie symétrique, Paris: La Découverte, 1991.
  • We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 1993, 157 pp. (English)
  • Jamais fomos modernos. Ensaio de antropologia simétrica, trans. Carlos Irineu da Costa, 1994. (Portuguese)
  • Нового Времени не было. Эссе по симметричной антропологии, trans. Д. Я. Калугина, 2006. (Russian)
  • Nunca fuimos modernos. Ensayo de antropología simétrica, trans. Víctor Goldstein, 2007. (Spanish)
  • 我们从未现代过. 对称性人类学论集, trans. 刘鹏 and 安涅思, 2011. (Chinese)

• Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Harvard University Press, 1996, 336 pp.

• Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Harvard University Press, 1999, 336 pp. (English)

• Politiques de la nature: Comment faire entrer les sciences en démocratie, Paris: La Découverte, 1999.
  • Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 2004, 307 pp. (English)
  • Politicas da natureza. Como fazer ciência na democracia, trans. Carlos Aurélio Mota de Souza, Sao Paulo: EDUSC, 2004. (Portuguese)

• La fabrique du droit, Paris: La Découverte, 2002.
  • The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat, trans. Marina Brilman and Alain Pottage, Polity Press, 2010. (English)

• Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford University Press, 2005, 301 pp. (English)
  • Changer de société. Refaire de la sociologie, trans. Nicolas Guilhot, Paris: La Découverte, 2006.
  • Reensamblar lo social. Una introducción a la teoría del actor-red, trans. Gabriel Zadunaisky, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 2008, IA. (Spanish)

• editor, with Peter Weibel, Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, MIT Press, 2005, 1072 pp. (English)

• with Vincent Antonin Lépinay, The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s Economic Anthropology, Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009, 100 pp. (English)

• Enquête sur les modes d’existence. Une anthropologie des Modernes, Paris: La découverte, 2012, 504 pp.
  • An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns, trans. Catherine Porter, Harvard University Press, 2013, 520 pp., IA. (English)
  • Investigation sobre los modos de existentia, trans. Alcira Bixio, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires: Paidos, 2013, ARG. (Spanish)
  • Existenzweisen: Eine Anthropologie der Modernen, trans. Donato Ricci, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2014, [PDF], ARG. (German)

• editor, with Christophe Leclerc, Reset Modernity!, Karlsruhe: ZKM, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016, 432 pp. Published to accompany an exhibition held 16 Apr-21 Aug 2016 at ZKM_Atrium. Field book. [2] [3] [4] (English)

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Conversations and interviews

• with Michel Serres, Eclaircissements, Paris: François Bourin, 1990.
  • Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time, trans. Roxanne Lapidus, University of Michigan Press, 1995. (English)
• Geert Lovink, Pit Schultz, "There is no information, only transformation: An Interview with Bruno Latour", 1997. (English)
• with Graham Harman, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE, Zero Books, 2011, 146 pp. (English)
• Heather Davis, "The Amoderns: Thoughts on an Impossible Project. A Feature Interview with Bruno Latour", Amodern, 2014. (English)

Literature

• Henning Schmidgen, Bruno Latour zur Einführung, Hamburg: Junius, 2011; 2nd ed., exp., 2013, 216 pp. [5]. Reviews: Kammerer (MW 2013), Mayer (BWG 2014). (German)
  • Bruno Latour in Pieces: An Intellectual Biography, trans. Gloria Custance, Fordham University Press, 2015. (English)

Links

• http://www.bruno-latour.fr