On Sensitivity Arts, Science and Politics in the New Climatic Regime

What equipment is necessary to render us sensitive to the New Climatic Regime? There is science, of course, without which we would not have become aware of the change. There is also politics, the only way to assemble the relevant stake holders. But since we don’t seem naturally endowed with the right sensitivity to absorb the magnitude of the ecological mutations we confront, there is also the arts.
The lecture will review the overlap between these three forms of aesthetics (defined as what makes us sensitive to hitherto unknown phenomena) by using various performances in which the author has been involved: theatre, exhibitions, simulations, as well as interventions in social science and philosophy.
Bruno Latour is Professor at Sciences Po, Paris where he is director of Sciences Po médialab and a Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Latour is a world-leading sociologist of science and anthropologist of modernity.
Professor Latour has published thirteen books, including the recent An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (Harvard University Press, 2013), and received prestigious awards and honours including the 2013 Holberg Memorial Prize - the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for humanities and social science. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages.
This lecture is hosted by Performance Climates 2016, Performance Studies International Conference. Proudly supported by the School of Culture and Communication, the Australian Centre and our partners Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and Victorian College of the Arts.

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Latour starts at: 16:20

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yes a quarter of the video is just institutional blabber.

All those burocrats wanting to talk before Latour...