2021-01-01 - Véronique Rossignol - Livres Hebdo
Construit autour de l'œuvre de Bruno Latour et en particulier de Face à Gaïa, cet ouvrage collectif réunit les réflexions de 10 intellectuels, parmi lesquels Vinciane Despret, Baptiste Morizot, Nastassja Martin ou encore Sébastien Dutreuil.
2021-02-01 - Youness Bousenna - Socialter
For several decades now, Bruno Latour has inspired the work of philosophers, historians, sociologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and artists all over the world. Facing Gaia occupies a special spot in his œuvre, crying out to be absorbed more broadly than as theory alone.
Each of the authors in this anthology tells of they came across one of the propositions in Facing Gaia, and how it troubled them, upset them, even upended their worldview. We will only face Gaia by combining all the knowledge gained from exploring this “critical zone” (another name for Gaia): artists’ performances, philosophy, metaphysics, and theology.
Gaia emerges even more fascinating, provoking, and menacing than ever before.
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Frédérique Aït-Touati is a historian of science, a CNRS researcher, and stage director who specializes in comparative literature and the history of science. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS-LSH), she holds an agrégation in modern languages, a doctorate in comparative literature (Paris IV, 2008), and a degree from Cambridge University. From 2007 to 2014, she taught at Oxford University before working for the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). Her research focuses on the connections between literature and science in France’s classical age.
Emanuele Coccia is a philosopher and a lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).
With contributions from Frédérique Aït-Touati, Emanuele Coccia, Sébastien Dutreuil, John Tresh, Baptiste Morizot, Nastassja Martin, Vinciane Despret, Stéphane Van Damme, Déborah Bucci, and Patrice Maniglier.
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