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"Too often debates are sterile. Each participant lines up behind the other, each with their own point of view. All is on show but nothing much happens. This debate is different. Something happened." --(Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick)
"Many crucial things get exposed and made explicit here. A key access point to the Latourian moment." --Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines de Paris
This is an especially welcome book. It is rare that one has the opportunity to be a near eye witness to a constructive and intellectually generous exchange of provocative ideas-in-the-making. Graham Harman, Bruno Latour and the assembled audience put on a great show. The exchange is fresh, laced with good humor, and informative. There is much to be learned here about empirical metaphysics-and collegiality. --(Michael Flower, Portland State University)
"Many crucial things get exposed and made explicit here. A key access point to the Latourian moment." --Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines de Paris
This is an especially welcome book. It is rare that one has the opportunity to be a near eye witness to a constructive and intellectually generous exchange of provocative ideas-in-the-making. Graham Harman, Bruno Latour and the assembled audience put on a great show. The exchange is fresh, laced with good humor, and informative. There is much to be learned here about empirical metaphysics-and collegiality. --(Michael Flower, Portland State University)
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The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on 5th February 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman. The occasion for the debate was the impending publication of Harman's book, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. During the discussion, Latour (the 'Prince') compared the professional philosophers who have pursued him over the years to a pack of wolves. The Prince and the Wolf is the story of what happens when the wolf catches up with the prince. Latour and Harman engage in brisk and witty conversation about questions that go to the heart of both metaphysics and research methodology: What are objects? How do they interact? And best how to study them?
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...in the forest, the Prince and Wolf take a break from the chase to chat...
17 Aug 2011
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This is actually a very enjoyable dialogue. It got to some meaty issues and contentions between the Prince (Latour) and the Wolf (Harman), or between actor-network theory and object-oriented ontology. I came away with the sense that, one, these are two intellectuals who deeply respect each other's work. Prior to reading the book, I had listened to the recorded three hour dialogue and smiled and laughed at the amiable atmosphere created by all involved, and I found nothing of that is missing from the transcript (and I couldn't read Latour's words without hearing his agreeable accent and tone). The second impression I came away with is the emphasis that both philosophy and the sciences need each other in some sense. Not in the sense of either providing the other with a kind of necessary "foundation" (there is a nice discussion of just this problem of foundations in the dialogue). No, rather in the sense that both philosophy and the sciences work with actors at different levels of scale and abstraction, and that, if both sides are open, inspiration and insight can happen between both of them. Latour often mentions his productive relationships and readings of various philosophers, or "the wolves," as he delightfully calls them. Harman continually emphasizes how Latour's work provided the precise strengths he needed to compensate for Heidegger's weaknesses. There was also some tantalizing references to Latour's future text on modes of existence and the concept of plasma. Add to this some brilliant and precise questions by some astute participants---some formidable grad students, some sociologists and social scientists, some professional philosophers, such as Peter Hallward---and you have an event both pleasurable and compelling. The participants' questions and comments, which were submitted to the panel for discussion, are nicely included in full at the end of the book.
Now, if only the trolls and vampires of the blogosphere could become like wolves and princes...
Now, if only the trolls and vampires of the blogosphere could become like wolves and princes...
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