Closereads: Latour on Materialism

Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get all previous and future installments of this podcast. Mark and Wes read and discuss the short 2007 article, "Can We Get Our Materialism Back, Please?" Here Bruno Latour complains that materialism as modern common sense conceives of it is actually idealist: It is a social construction. Instead, a "thick" concept of material things acknowledges and details their historical (i.e. material in the Marxist sense) origins. The post Closereads: Latour on Materialism first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.