Wednesday, February 28, 2007
How to Deal with Stress: The Latour Method
When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade.
When life gives philosopher of science Bruno Latour lemons...HE REVERSES TIME ITSELF!
From Latour's Science in Action:
"There are not that many ways to master a situation. Either you dominate it physically; or you draw on your side a great many allies, or else you try to be there before anybody else. How can this be done? Simply by reversing the flow of time." (231)
Of course! It's so simple.
When life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade.
When life gives philosopher of science Bruno Latour lemons...HE REVERSES TIME ITSELF!
From Latour's Science in Action:
"There are not that many ways to master a situation. Either you dominate it physically; or you draw on your side a great many allies, or else you try to be there before anybody else. How can this be done? Simply by reversing the flow of time." (231)
Of course! It's so simple.
Comments:
Brilliant! It's so simple, I can't believe I never thought of that. Does he have a method for reversing time? Perhaps involving lemons?
He actually does have a method to his madness, although it's not nearly as exciting as the quote might lead one to believe. There's much more of an emphasis on centers of calculation and the accumulation of immutable mobiles than on flux capacitor design.
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