From ANT to pragmatism: A Journey with Bruno Latour at the CSI
Résumé
In order to discuss concretely the possible relations between the humanities and Latour’s work, this chapter retraces exchanges that actually occurred at the CSI, in a common effort to rebuild the disconnected links between political, scientific and artistic representations. Under the heading of a “return to the object”, Hennion relates his own work on music, amateurs, and attachments, and the Actor-Network Theory developed at the CSI. The review of exchanges then woven between science and technology on a side and culture on the other allows him to address concepts and issues such as mediation and its contrast with translation; the question of attachments; the criticism of Bourdieu’s critical sociology; and the revival of pragmatism in social inquiries.