Politics of Nature

* Book: Politiques de la Nature, ou comment faire entrer les sciences en democratie. Bruno Latour.

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From Michel Bauwens reading notebook 2006:

Latour wants to renew political ecology in the light of the 'risk society'; the book argues that political democracy should retake the power of decision, whihc has been taken away by techno-scientific expertise.

According to Latour we have left modernity, and the dictatorship of science. Modernity said: we know, and then acted on that knowledge. Such knowledge precluded political decision. It is this era that is over. Science is now contested, it is again up to politics. We now act with precaution, learning as we do, knowing that we do not have certainty beforehand."