Why has critical spirit run out of steam?

Bruno Latour, at Stanford, in April 2003.

• retying the gordian knot
• science in the making - ready-made science
• add deconstruction to destruction ?
• global warming is a fact
• critical equipment under scrutiny
• renewing empiricism
• closer to the facts
• matter of concern
• Heidegger - thing, chose, res, delo, causa: object out there - Althing
• quasi-scientific inquiry - matter of fact transformed into matter of concern
• shuttle to space or to heaven
• naivete, the ultimately sin
• Whitehead: Concept of Nature
• Detect how many participants are gathered in a thing
• How come we don't master what we create ourselves?
• Alan Turing