Bruno Latour
Author(s)
Williams, Rosalind H
Date Issued
September 2012
Journal
Isis
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Citation
Williams, Rosalind. “Bruno Latour. On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods . (Science and Cultural Theory.) x + 157 Pp., Bibl., Index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. $19.95 (Paper).” Isis, vol. 103, no. 3, Sept. 2012, pp. 625–26. © 2012 by The History of Science Society
Version
Final published version
Abstract
This slender, quirky, and intriguing book collects three pièces d'occasion that collectively extend the argument against the fetishism of facts so memorably advanced in Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern (1993 [1991]). The first piece is a translation of a 1996 pamphlet that Latour wrote about an internship with an ethnopsychiatric practice at the Centre Devereux in Paris. The second republishes the introduction (coauthored by Peter Weibel) to the catalogue of the 2002 exhibition Iconoclash, which Latour co-curated, at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany. The third selection was published in 2005 in the volume Science, Religion, and the Human Experience (Oxford), edited by James D. Proctor.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1086/669026
