Lecture date: 1999-02-22
Deploying material based on his book Paris: Ville Invisible Bruno Latour presents some of the results of the social theory known as ‘sociology of translation’ (actor network theory). After field studies in Africa and California, Latour specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management.
Since 1982, he has been professor at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation at the Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the history of science department of Harvard University.
