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Reset Modernity! (MIT Press)
Bruno (Ed) Latour
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Description for Reset Modernity! (MIT Press)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Latour, Bruno. Num Pages: 432 pages, 300 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; AGC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system? Modernity has had so many meanings and tries to combine so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the future. It has ended up crashing like an overloaded computer. Hence the idea is that modernity might need a sort of reset. Not a clean break, not a tabula rasa, not another iconoclastic gesture, but rather a restart of the complicated programs that have been accumulated, over ... Read more
Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system? Modernity has had so many meanings and tries to combine so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the future. It has ended up crashing like an overloaded computer. Hence the idea is that modernity might need a sort of reset. Not a clean break, not a tabula rasa, not another iconoclastic gesture, but rather a restart of the complicated programs that have been accumulated, over ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1554g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262034593
SKU
V9780262034593
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About Bruno (Ed) Latour
Bruno Latour, a philosopher and anthropologist, is the author of Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Our Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, and many other books. He curated the ZKM exhibits ICONOCLASH and Making Things Public and coedited the accompanying catalogs, both published by the MIT Press.
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