Latour is up next in my SR course…

For the realism class, Harman’s book on Bruno Latour is starting up today. We just finished Meillassoux and my students got a great grasp of it. We will return to Meillassoux after Latour and Harman, but that’s when we narrow down in few weeks to special topics that my students choose (speculative realism and art, sr and God, etc.). Reading Latour, I remembered I asked a couple of weeks ago about a word that means the opposite of “reductionism.” I had already read a bunch of Latour and read Prince of Networks, so why did “irreductions” not pop into mind? We’ll spend much of today discussing that, and incidentally Harman has a post describing his “anti-reductionism” (my wording here).