Never modern, never human, always post-Anthropocene? Latour, Haraway and Colebrook: assembling conversations (as) becoming knowledge

This article engages with Feminist Science Studies and knowledge production, and specifically focuses on different collective engagements by the authors Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Claire Colebrook. How do they use the word “we”, and who are they referring to, as they go into notions of modernit...

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Published inPulse (Budapest) Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 44 - 56
Main Author Van den Berg, Karijn
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Central European University 2016
Subjects
Epistemology
Gender Studies
Philosophy of Science
Political Theory
Anthropocene
collective engagements
feminist science studies
discourse
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Summary:This article engages with Feminist Science Studies and knowledge production, and specifically focuses on different collective engagements by the authors Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Claire Colebrook. How do they use the word “we”, and who are they referring to, as they go into notions of modernity, humanity and the Anthropocene? What are the consequences of articulating a “we” when talking about topics such as the current geo-political situation? What collectivities and exclusions are created? Who has the power to define this “we” and who can talk for, about, or through it? This article positions the different scholars as in conversation, in exploring what kind of “we” they are talking about in their texts and how this “we” is constituted. As such it aims to demonstrate that this “we” is not always taken for granted and does not necessarily assume a unified human species as opposed to all other forms of being and mattering.
ISSN:2416-111X