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Main Ideas and Question: "Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene"

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"Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene" by Bruno Latour

 

3 Main Ideas:

  • The traditional sense of objectivity in natural science is gone because the problem is here and now and not some abstract idea.
  • Just like how Galileo was ridiculed for saying the Earth moved, modern day climate scientists are not taken seriously for saying climate change is occuring. For Galileo the problem was religion for the modern day scientists, economics.
  • The only way to stop climate change is to work together as a planet and yet thay may be impossible due to politics, economics, and war.

 

Question:

  • In the article, what is animation?