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1. Once Out of Nature | Series 2012-2013 | College of Humanities and Social Science
The set of questions around the two words “natural religion” implies that only the second word is a coded and thus a disputed category, t… -
Latour opening his series of Gifford Lectures with a quote from Patrick Geddes…
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Geddes was a Scottish urban planner. Designed the garden city plan for Tel Aviv.
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The concept of earth as a ‘geohistorical’ narrative.
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Science as practice / politics as non-human too / religion freed from political epistemology
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Lectures as ‘mediations on a political theology of nature’.
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Introduces the term ‘oowwab’ (out of which we are born) to replace ‘people of nature’.
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A shift from names to agencies.
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Love how clunky OOWWAB is.
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Actually, it should be OWWAAB. Out of which we are all born. Apologies. Too many Os, Ws and As.
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Science multiplies not reduces.
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Addressing of all these things: http://pic.twitter.com/SGRsJRDt -
Work will revolve around ‘animation’ of entities.
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The interest is in the grey zone: http://pic.twitter.com/bh2n6CZg -
The expression ‘nature’ doesn’t define what is assembled in practice.
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Nor does ‘religion’ qualify the people, rites and attachments proper to those practices.
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Exteriority and universality as exercised above agency by those who are religious.
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Gaia as inside and outside, unified and multiple, animate and inanimate, controversial and decided.
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Questions from the floor to follow. Apologies for the stream of tweets.
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The enthusiasm of the surgeons shows clearly enough that we can not distinguish “belief” from “knowledge”.
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Ironically climatologists the most interested and worried about state of the world, despite scientific distance.
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A rather relevant tweet from @LatourBot re: belief and knowledge of epistemic groups.
Sam Hind 
Reblogged this on AGENT SWARM and commented:
As I missed the first of Bruno Latour’s Gifford lectures I thought I would reblog this useful “tweetary” (tweet summary) by Sam Hind.