Bruno Latour was known for his research on the philosophy of science.
One of France's most influential and iconoclastic living philosophers, Latour, was known for his work on how humans view the climate emergency.
He won the Holberg prize for his spirit that was "creative, imaginative, playful, humorous and unpredictable"
As a thinker on ecology, modernity or religion, Latour was recognised around the world before being recognised in France, according to a statement by the president. The president of France said that Latour's writings would inspire new connections to the world.
The climate emergency has different ways of being understood and communicated. In Face Gaa, he looked at how the separation between nature and culture leads to climate denial.
His large body of work ranged from philosophy and sociology to anthropology, and he urged society to learn from the Covid pandemic, a global catastrophe that has come not from the outside but from within.
He told the Guardian that they needed to get out of the system of production. In human history, the idea of framing everything in terms of the economy is new. The economy is a narrow and limited way of organizing life because of the swine flu.
I would like to get out of the system of production and build a political ecology.
The social and technically constructed facts came about through interactions between experts, as argued by a pioneer of science and technology studies. The separation of facts and values was thought to be wrong by Latour.
After earning a PhD in philosophy from the University of Tours, Latour turned his attention to anthropology, undertaking field studies in California and the Ivorian coast.
He put it "both the history of humans' involvement in the making of scientific facts and the sciences' involvement in the making of human history" in his books of the 1980's and 90's.
One of his most controversial assertions was the claim that Louis Pasteur worked with them.
There were heated debates between realists who believed that facts were objective and social constructionists who thought that facts were created by scientists.
The social constructionists were invited to jump out of the window of the physicist's flat on the 21st floor. They didn't believe in the laws of physics, he thought.
It was actually quite the opposite according to the man. He told the New York Times that they were happy to develop the critique because they were certain of the authority of science.
He was involved in the artistic world in addition to his work in the academic world. There were two exhibitions at the Zentrum fr Kunst und Medientechnologie.
He collaborated with the researcher and director Frédérique At-Touati on several theatre projects, including the performance-cum-lecture Inside in 2017.
Moving Earths, a blend of performance and lecture, was staged in February 2020.
Richard Powers commented on how Latour encouraged him to think of all living systems as interdependent and interdependent processes.
Powers said that he was moving us out of our fantasies of control and back into an embrace of democracy.
In an interview with the LA Review of Books, Latour said that science needs a lot of support to be objective.
You depend on the oxygen in this room for science to work. It's very easy.
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