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Personal Connection Between Tooze And Latour
- Adam Tooze met Bruno Latour when Latour visited Yale to give lectures and they stayed in touch for years.
- Tooze wrote an essay for Latour as recently as last year, showing a sustained personal and intellectual relationship.
Knowledge Is Produced, Not Discovered
- Latour argued modernity rests on a nature/society split that masks how knowledge is produced in practice.
- He reframed bias as interest and stressed knowledge emerges from embodied actors interacting with the world.
Follow The Data Supply Chains
- Latour treated laboratories and statistics as 'centers of calculation' that act on the world remotely.
- He urged social scientists to study how economic data and networks are constructed, not just use the numbers uncritically.