An Origin Story

Imagine feeling concurrently bamboozled and enlightened, bewitched and transfixed, alienated and attracted. That’s how I felt the first time I saw Bruno Latour speak in person. It was 2006 and I attended Latour’s lecture at the urging of a professor who stressed to our doctoral class that Latour was a contemporary scholar of significant importance.

In the many years since, much of my intellectual work has endeavoured to cultivate those precious puffs of anthropological, sociological, and philosophical clouds cast by Latour into the amphitheater on that autumn evening in Ann Arbor, Michigan. My dissertation is one, roughly-hewn product of those endeavours, but the links below showcase my more recent attempts to engage Latour’s work. Many commentators have skilfully considered Bruno Latour’s work in relation to their own disciplines and interests–economics, architecture, law, religious studies, and the humanities, for example–but the aim of Project Latour is to invent a fleet of one-of-a-kind theoretical and practical vehicles designed to port his many innovations into the field of science education.