I was in high school when I learned about Lovelock. Only many decades later I learned about Latours work and the interplay. It's one of those topics that still generates rather strong emotional responses in me: why are we not seeing this? What mechanisms perpetuate the bifurcation of nature ... Latour died when I was going through a very rough patch in life (due to mental illness). Surely coincidental, but meaningful to me none the less. This is one of those topics where I think "the more the better". Thank you, even 5 years in the future.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I read the book twice and couldn't really grasp the idea that the author was trying to give! Now I finally understand it!! Wish you the best of the best!
I object to supposed facts proving Earth is a globe. "the Earth itself might not be a globe after all" -Latour 2013 I have met all objections to it being flat and immobile.
0ThouArtThat0 What do you think of the Latour quote I cited? That flat earth cosmologies are denigrated is largely the fault of Roman Catholics. J Heilbron' s 1999 book covers the early influence of the Catholics on cosmology, and H Kragh's 2003 book shows how the Big Bang theory is from a Catholic priest. The people building an "alternative [flat earth] universe" include the oldest cultures throughout history and ones since the advent of modern astronomy. Something they have in common is an opposition to imperial religions of Babylon and Rome. Roman Catholicism is also responsible for the feaux-secularism of techno new-agers. The desire for godlike powers and escape into a realm of fantasy is a Roman Catholic mantle taken up from prior cultures of magical thinking.
@elliott, why do you even bother arguing with this guy, the earth being flat is as obvious as it can be, whoever still has any doubts about this in the 21st century simply has no scientific understanding of the world whatsoever. Let these "globe earth" morons do their thing, and let us the enlightened ones live our lives to the fullest and love our flat earth the way a flat earth truly deserves :D
The quote you ripped out of its context to place it into yours does not mean - at all - what I suspect you think it means. He is speaking of the *concept* of a Globe, the concept that we have of, or if you will, the conceptual analysis we make of the earth we live on. If we *view* the Earth as a globe and act on all that this entails, we are going in the wrong direction, says Latour. The short answer to your question is: he does not mean this literally.
I was in high school when I learned about Lovelock. Only many decades later I learned about Latours work and the interplay. It's one of those topics that still generates rather strong emotional responses in me: why are we not seeing this? What mechanisms perpetuate the bifurcation of nature ... Latour died when I was going through a very rough patch in life (due to mental illness). Surely coincidental, but meaningful to me none the less. This is one of those topics where I think "the more the better". Thank you, even 5 years in the future.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I read the book twice and couldn't really grasp the idea that the author was trying to give! Now I finally understand it!! Wish you the best of the best!
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Parp? Lol. You'd love to know what that means in English comic book language.
That's the course code for the Philosophy and Religion department.
I object to supposed facts proving Earth is a globe.
"the Earth itself might not be a globe after all"
-Latour 2013
I have met all objections to it being flat and immobile.
Ah, I see. Flat Earth Syndrome's gotchya, eh? Good luck building your alternative universe.
0ThouArtThat0
What do you think of the Latour quote I cited?
That flat earth cosmologies are denigrated is largely the fault of Roman Catholics.
J Heilbron' s 1999 book covers the early influence of the Catholics on cosmology, and H Kragh's 2003 book shows how the Big Bang theory is from a Catholic priest.
The people building an "alternative [flat earth] universe" include the oldest cultures throughout history and ones since the advent of modern astronomy. Something they have in common is an opposition to imperial religions of Babylon and Rome.
Roman Catholicism is also responsible for the feaux-secularism of techno new-agers. The desire for godlike powers and escape into a realm of fantasy is a Roman Catholic mantle taken up from prior cultures of magical thinking.
@elliott, why do you even bother arguing with this guy, the earth being flat is as obvious as it can be, whoever still has any doubts about this in the 21st century simply has no scientific understanding of the world whatsoever. Let these "globe earth" morons do their thing, and let us the enlightened ones live our lives to the fullest and love our flat earth the way a flat earth truly deserves :D
The quote you ripped out of its context to place it into yours does not mean - at all - what I suspect you think it means. He is speaking of the *concept* of a Globe, the concept that we have of, or if you will, the conceptual analysis we make of the earth we live on. If we *view* the Earth as a globe and act on all that this entails, we are going in the wrong direction, says Latour. The short answer to your question is: he does not mean this literally.