Closereads: Latour on Materialism

from Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and Wes

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. Read along with us. You can choose to watch this on video. Get all episodes ad-free at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy. The post Closereads: Latour on Materialism first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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