ANTH 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bruno Latour, Organicism, Reductionism

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Emilio moran ecosystems ecology in biology and anthropology. 6 points to watch for and identity in various literatures on the environment: Ethi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (cid:858)e(cid:272)olog(cid:455)(cid:859: all is flux, creativity in constancy, emergence of pattern. Steps to an ecology of being (the mid-term exam) There is pattern and some measure of predictability and what ties that together is people prescribing to rules. Look closely people are always violating the rules. Where are the missing masses that hold this together. Materials/matter shape our actions, thought, and behaviours: ex. Where we delegate morality to artifacts: things around us are often having a weight in how things occur, e(cid:454). People (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:271)e (cid:271)othe(cid:396)ed to (cid:272)lose doo(cid:396) (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d the(cid:373) (cid:449)he(cid:374) it(cid:859)s (cid:272)old: create clever artifacts that make people follow rules. Speed bums and automatic doors that close themselves. Rules people follow as a society but if you look closely you can rarely find someone following it. The physicality of our environments shape interactions and occurrences: ex.

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