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Love Your Monsters: Why We Must Care For Our Technologies As We Do Our Children
Breakthrough Journal
Format: Magazine Article
Publication Date: Nov 30, 2010
Sources ID: 80756
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Now, in "Love Your Monsters," Latour, who is a 2010 Breakthrough Senior Fellow, turns his gaze squarely to the question of technology to protect the planet from ecological crisis. Where many American environmental philosophers draw on the German philosopher Martin Heidegger to reject technological solutions as one-dimensional, Latour rejected Heidegger's assumptions in We Have Never Been Modern. Technology does not disenchant the world, Latour argued, depriving it of mystery and magic and spirit. "The gods are in here, too," Latour quotes the Greek philosopher Heraclitus saying, in reference to human made machines.