http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/02/25/latour-rethinks-the-social-construction-of-science/ coping with ecological suprise in a human dominated world Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/02/25/latour-rethinks-the-social-construction-of-science/#comment-1645 manu21 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:19:13 +0000 http://rs.resalliance.org/2007/02/25/latour-rethinks-the-social-construction-of-science/#comment-1645 Hello, I like the standing point of Bruno Latour. He sees what I call the "emergence of process". Facts are produced by the interaction of process and content. The process referes to the way facts are build and then produced in the semantic field. Content referes to the reality of which the speaker (or writer or any producer of information) is talking about. What Latour underlines is the fact that the process is at least as much important as the content. An insight on the process gives a strategic point of view on what is being said without being naive. It also allows to be autonomous ie gives the permission to think on your own. The fact is that they are emerging places where you can do that with the needed protections especially in virtual worlds. Practicing this new approach in those protected areas allows persons to transfert it in the "real world". Both are progressively merging, the process emerging in them and thus creating a new universe. Hello,
I like the standing point of Bruno Latour. He sees what I call the “emergence of process”. Facts are produced by the interaction of process and content. The process referes to the way facts are build and then produced in the semantic field. Content referes to the reality of which the speaker (or writer or any producer of information) is talking about.
What Latour underlines is the fact that the process is at least as much important as the content. An insight on the process gives a strategic point of view on what is being said without being naive. It also allows to be autonomous ie gives the permission to think on your own. The fact is that they are emerging places where you can do that with the needed protections especially in virtual worlds.
Practicing this new approach in those protected areas allows persons to transfert it in the “real world”. Both are progressively merging, the process emerging in them and thus creating a new universe.

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