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Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies

Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies The Information Society, 16:245–247, 2000 Copyright c 2000 Taylor & Francis 0197-2243/00 $12.00 + .00 Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-65336-X. 352 pages. $19.95. Reviewed by Felix Stalder Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada One should never speak of “data”—what is given—but that, for whatever reason, needs to be deconstructed. Tak- rather of “sublata,” that is, of achievements. (Latour, 1999, ing up the challenge to formulate an alternative position p. 42) to both modernist realism and postmodernist relativism is Pandora’s Hope is an extension and update of Bruno an enormous project. The way Latour measures up to this Latour’s two most important books, Science in Action task will help establish him rmly as one of the most orig- ( ) ( ) 1987 and We Have Never Been Modern 1993 . In this inal thinkers about the status of science and technology at collection of essays Latour revisits the relationship be- the turn of this century. tween human’s and natural and artifactual objects. His tone Latour calls this alternative a “realistic realism” and of voice is at times slightly annoyed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Information Society Taylor & Francis

Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies

Stalder, Felix
The Information Society , Volume 16 (3): 3 – Jul 1, 2000
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The Information Society, 16:245–247, 2000 Copyright c 2000 Taylor & Francis 0197-2243/00 $12.00 + .00 Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-65336-X. 352 pages. $19.95. Reviewed by Felix Stalder Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada One should never speak of “data”—what is given—but that, for whatever reason, needs to be deconstructed. Tak- rather of “sublata,” that is, of achievements. (Latour, 1999, ing up the challenge to formulate an alternative position p. 42) to both modernist realism and postmodernist relativism is Pandora’s Hope is an extension and update of Bruno an enormous project. The way Latour measures up to this Latour’s two most important books, Science in Action task will help establish him rmly as one of the most orig- ( ) ( ) 1987 and We Have Never Been Modern 1993 . In this inal thinkers about the status of science and technology at collection of essays Latour revisits the relationship be- the turn of this century. tween human’s and natural and artifactual objects. His tone Latour calls this alternative a “realistic realism” and of voice is at times slightly annoyed.

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