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You explained Latour's ideas better than he was able to. I took a course of his on environmental politics a few years ago at Sciences Po. He had many interesting gems to share with us, but the narrative of the class was lost in the chaos of multiple speakers and unstated goals. Though it was frustrating to pick up on the thread that he knew linked so many topics together, I particularly enjoyed how he tried to drill down on what is "nature" and how we use the word "natural" to define so many things. Another one of his brilliant rhetorical questions was when we began to exploit nature for money, whether for gas or to charge people to enter parks. Of course we also touched on Gaia and Lovelock.

For those who are interested in learning a bit more about his work, the NyT profiled him some years ago[1]. It was interesting because he had been assailed by the scientific community for undermining some of their assertions about scientific fact as some kind of a tangible truth to be held, but he seemed to have had a late-career change of heart.

1- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-pos... (https://archive.ph/ULKzn)