Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour is one of those thinkers I find genuinely difficult and genuinely worth the struggle. His insistence on treating objects and humans as actors in the same network reshaped science and technology studies and unsettled a lot of comfortable assumptions. The Beaune-born philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist collected the Holberg Prize and the Legion of Honour, but his real legacy is conceptual mischief that still provokes. Since his death in 2022 his ideas feel more urgent, not less, especially around climate and how we narrate the modern world. I count him among the indispensable awkward voices.

Name (English)

Bruno Latour

Name (Japanese)

ブルーノ・ラトゥール

Reading

ぶるーの・らとぅーる

Born

June 22, 1947 – October 9, 2022

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

Origin

Beaune, Côte-d’Or, France

Occupation

anthropologist / sociologist / professor / philosopher / writer

University

Tours University

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 2013 Holberg International Memorial Prize
• 2015 Albertus-Magnus professorate
• 2008 Siegfried Unseld Preis
• 1992 John Desmond Bernal Prize
• 2017 Officer of the National Order of Merit
• 1992 prix Roberval Grand public
• 1996 honorary doctorate of Lund University

• Official sitehttps://www.bruno-latour.fr
• Xhttps://x.com/BrunoLatourAIME
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Latour
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355237

Tags

• Côte-d’Or
• anthropologist
• sociologist
• professor

Last updated

2026-06-21

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