Favorite Passage: (132) Under Part C: The Model of Diffusion versus the model of translation
This passage would have been a great reference for our last in class discussion.
Latour talks about how facts are developed from claims, equipment from prototypes.
He is really clear in this section.
Passage 1. (134) First full paragraph– “Facts and machines are constantly changing and are not simply reproduced. He also talks about facts and machines on the pages before 134… and in large separate chapters.
I just need it put in simpler terms. I kind of understand how both are built but I don’t see their similarities. Question: How are facts like machines?
They are built similarly.
Passage 2: pg 28:
As the controversy heated, the discussion shifted inside the brain science; in fact, it shifted literally inside the brain. He goes on and describes how neurologists dissected the brain and so on.
Question: What are the determining factors, according to Latour, that allow a heated argument evolve like that? Is it an appeal to pathos? challenge to logos? Or something else? If we were to dissect the evolution of the argument, what would it look like?
