When a critical theorist chastised Critical Theory

This video is an invitation to read the academic article of Bruno Latour entitled "Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern". To introduce the viewer to the article we give a brief presentation of the climate in which Critical theory, Postmodernism, and Latour himself were enveloped in after the publication of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (written by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont). Then we summarize some of the article's main points, among these a critique of social constructivism and critical theory as a whole.

Link to the full article:
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/defa...


Other comments:

Latour appears to count himself among the critical theorists at numerous junctures within the article, so to make the title more immediate we call him a critical theorist even though the label is fuzzy and some might not categorize him this way. Similar issues may present themselves with the label "postmodernist", depending on its definition.
Also, for reasons of brevity, we don't go into the distinction between social constructionist and social constructivist (Latour calls himself a constructivist in the article).


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