Bruno Latour - The Affects of Capitalism

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.พ. 2014
  • The Royal Academy Lecture in the Humanities and Social Sciences
    On Wednesday 26 February 2014, the French Professor in Sociology, Bruno Latour, gave a lecture at the Royal Library, The Black Diamant.
    The Affects of Capitalism
    Through the work of science studies applied to the peculiar discipline of economics, a very innovative view of the ways in which the "economic infrastructure" affects people has been proposed. However, it is not always clear in what way it modifies the older ideas of capitalism and the distribution of political positions that have been generated by such concept. The lecture will illustrate this new view by showing the place of Economics in modern anthropology, and which redefinition of politics it entails.
    Professor of anthropology and President of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Kirsten Hastrup, writes about the speaker:
    Bruno Latour has been one of the most influential thinkers in the social sciences, broadly defined, since his early work on Laboratory Life (co-authored with Steve Woolgar, 1986). In the plethora of works that have appeared since then, Latour has consistently challenged established categories and scientific complacency and encouraged social scientists to study connections and networks rather than boundaries and entities. Travelling freely in the intellectual landscape between philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and science and technology studies, Latour has invited his readers to take a fresh view of the world, and to transcend dominant categorical oppositions, such as modern/non-modern, culture/nature, human/non-human.

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  • @SeekersofUnity
    @SeekersofUnity 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Lecture begins at 12:49

    • @YM-cw8so
      @YM-cw8so 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      jeez the intro is that long

  • @KENDRIK
    @KENDRIK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hola, latino here. Can anyone translate the whole video? I think hispanic people need to hear this. I mean... no entiendo bien, si no lo traduciría yo. Pero sería cool que alguien le pusiera subtítulos en español, no sé, solo decía

  • @zoxeme
    @zoxeme 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The presentation was great, but the Carlsberg plug at the end... weird, made me wander if i was dreaming.

  • @philipconway6790
    @philipconway6790 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was the Q&A session recorded?

  • @wyleong4326
    @wyleong4326 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yay!

  • @MsMidooox
    @MsMidooox 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please, can someone spell the name of the scholar he referenced in 40:12.

    • @donmidwest5803
      @donmidwest5803 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don Midwest
      I listened several times and could not figure it out. I did a couple of searches and could not find the name. Sorry.

    • @jostenmyburgh109
      @jostenmyburgh109 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dipesh Chakrabarty

    • @MsMidooox
      @MsMidooox 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Josten Myburgh Thanks a lot!!

    • @MsMidooox
      @MsMidooox 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don Midwest No Problem, someone got the answer XD.

  • @marcoantino2920
    @marcoantino2920 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:15

  • @tenajyebba
    @tenajyebba 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sublime thinker.

  • @jeancarlosvy
    @jeancarlosvy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Vine por Diego

    • @KENDRIK
      @KENDRIK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too, pero no domino mucho el inglés y no entiendo el video

  • @solvictor3390
    @solvictor3390 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seria possível alguém traduzir o texto desse vídeo para Português?

  • @gabrielagarciavera9971
    @gabrielagarciavera9971 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    pase por aqui por que lo aconsejo Diego Ruzzarin...alguien mas?

  • @kastaway2
    @kastaway2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Affects or Effects?
    Thank you.

    • @abhirajgoswami1048
      @abhirajgoswami1048 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Affect. Its a defined philosophical concept in critical theory.

  • @stephen0793
    @stephen0793 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Isn't Latour saying we should go beyond the capitalist vs. anti-capitalist paradigm?

    • @axelsprangare2579
      @axelsprangare2579 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes.

    • @nicholastaylor9398
      @nicholastaylor9398 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. He also proposes a model beyond the Nationalist - Globalist dichotomy. Think of that as being one side of a triangle. The other apex is true Sustainability. He argues, optimistically, that people have become disillusioned with both Nationalism and Globalism, certainly the latter anyway, though when one looks at Russia, Hungary and MAGA, and even China and India, it is difficult to see the demise of Nationalism.

  • @KevinMurrayAustral
    @KevinMurrayAustral 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for providing this. It's a wonderful talk, even though I cringe through the Australian references. However, Latour's flat structure doesn't seem to really engage with the expansive nature of capitalism which he defined as its key affect. Latour makes unbridled capitalism seem like a category error, rather than something connected to the emotion of hope.

    • @monsteroflogic
      @monsteroflogic 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      May I ask what you mean by "category error" in this case?

    • @KevinMurrayAustral
      @KevinMurrayAustral 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I use 'category error' to refer to the way capitalism cannot take into account its limits. Rather than seeing this as a logical fault, I think it could be seen in relation to human desire and fantasy of future abundance.

  • @Blubberbeest
    @Blubberbeest 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was the 10th thesis? "Back to Earth, you (???)"

    • @Blubberbeest
      @Blubberbeest 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just found this document which I think is roughly the same text as this lecture
      www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/136-AFFECTS-OF-K-COPENHAGUE.pdf
      But there he writes 'Back to Earth, you Earthlings' which is clearly not what he is saying in the lecture

    • @guitonparis
      @guitonparis ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Blubberbeest Thanks so much for that. You should put has a standalone comment!

    • @RogierMaaskant
      @RogierMaaskant ปีที่แล้ว

      he could be saying back to earth you dareans

  • @guajolotl
    @guajolotl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    CAPITALISM. Except that capitalism IS evil.
    FIRST, the system is unplanned and unstable, This anarchy of production cannot reconciliate the social character of production and the private confiscation of production, and thus makes the recurring crises inevitable.(stock market crashes)
    SECOND. It is an asymmetrical system, that is, the chasing after wealth produces the concentration and centralization of capital and the wealth of the society in a few hands.
    THIRD. The global economy is market oriented and nationalist, and requires military protection to function globally (endless wars).
    FOURTH. The transnational corporations exclude all the citizens of the world community, who have no say so in their decisions, and do not satisfy the needs of the population.
    FIFTH. The development and use of resources of the first world is simply ecologically unsustainable. The corporations are incapable of reducing their mad dash for ever greater wealth and usurpation of more and more resources. The way they use the law of value is incompatible with a democratic, equal and sustainable global society, stable for everyone.

  • @inotoyepthomi
    @inotoyepthomi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can someone please summarise the 1 Hour lecture

    • @g.torrance628
      @g.torrance628 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can find the text here

    • @donmidwest5803
      @donmidwest5803 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@g.torrance628 can you give link again. It doesn't show up

    • @g.torrance628
      @g.torrance628 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@donmidwest5803 just get rid of the spaces

  • @theonetheonly3933
    @theonetheonly3933 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "justice" is only an idea, it can never be applied in reality.
    "justice" in human society is only how much satisfaction society produces/achieves over the communal reactive treatment on an individual member of the society who has committed an unacceptable action. but all our actions and reactions in society are deeply prejudiced.
    "justice" is meaningless in the reality of any society.
    "capitalism" is based on injustice.

  • @sville0513
    @sville0513 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nearly an hour of bashing capitalism funded by capitalism through the Carlsberg Foundation. The irony is too rich.

    • @payasofo5342
      @payasofo5342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      your gayness is too rich

    • @aristakelso5655
      @aristakelso5655 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@payasofo5342 homophobic

    • @felipecagorago
      @felipecagorago 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The old "you criticize capitalism but you own things" type of argument, classic one

  • @tomasinfante1355
    @tomasinfante1355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zzzzzz

  • @pslopez7
    @pslopez7 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    effects*

    • @fourclaws
      @fourclaws 9 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      *affects

    • @agushoebill
      @agushoebill 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fourclaws why?

  • @alwaysask
    @alwaysask 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Helplessness"? It's just simple fact-observing that free market economy (i.e. what Marx - the irony... - called "Capitalism") is the best economic system the human race has ever developed, even with its flaws.

    • @johnleidzen3728
      @johnleidzen3728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ill reply with the same coin. No its not!

    • @grandetrujilloivan956
      @grandetrujilloivan956 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's no such think as a free market economy

    • @Julian-df2pj
      @Julian-df2pj ปีที่แล้ว

      You're eating from the trash can of ideology my guy