Pandora's Hope

Essays on the Reality of Science Studies

Bruno Latour

    "Do You Believe in Reality?" News from the Trenches of the Science Wars

    Circulating Reference: Sampling the Soil in the Amazon Forest

    Science's Blood Flow: An Example from Joliot's Scientific Intelligence

    From Fabrication to Reality: Pasteur and His Lactic Acid Ferment

    The Historicity of Things: Where Were Microbes before Pasteur?

    A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans: Following Daedalus's Labyrinth

    The Invention of the Science Wars: The Settlement of Socrates and Callicles

    A Politics Freed from Science: The Body Cosmopolitic

    The Slight Surprise of Action: Facts, Fetishes, Factishes

    Conclusion: What Contrivance Will Free Pandora's Hope?

    Glossary

    Bibliography

    Index

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  • A photo of the author

Bruno Latour is Professor at the Center for the Study of Innovation at the School of Mines, Paris.