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Facing Gaia
Bruno Latour、Catherine Porter · 初版 2017 年
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17世纪现代科学的兴起深刻革新了我们对 Nature 的认识。在过去的三个世纪里，神学、政治学、经济学以及科学——尤其是物质世界科学——不断发展出关于 Nature 的新观念。如今，随着我们步入前所未有的生态变异，这一局势变得愈发不稳定。有人称之为 Anthropocene，但将其描述为一种新的气候体制更为恰切。这无疑是一种全新的体制，因为人类活动与自然界之间存在的诸多始料未及的关联……
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我就猜到大家对这篇文章会是这种反应。拜托，我强烈推荐文里提到的 Bruno Latour 写的《Facing Gaia》。他压根谈不上什么反科学。这本书探讨的是认识到事物本身就具有能动性（agency），哪怕它们是“无生命的”，而当我们那样对待它们时……
I figure this would be the kind of response to this article here. please I highly recommend Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour, mentioned in the article. he's not by any stretch anti-science. it's about recognizing that's things as such have agency, even if they are "inanimate" and when we treat them that way…
这是 Latour 的《Facing Gaia》的一种实践（praxis）。太妙了。
a praxis of Latour's Facing Gaia. beautiful.
……行动。我认为这对搞基础设施（不论是数字基础设施还是实体基础设施）的人来说，都应该敲响警钟。至少对于当年做工程师的我来说确实如此。如果是这样，我建议从他的最后一部重要著作《Facing Gaia》读起。它精彩得堪比 Alan Moore 的作品。
…actions. I think that this should ring a bell to those who put work into infrastructures, digital or not. It certainly did with the engineer I was. If so, I recommend starting with his last major book, Facing Gaia. It's as good as an Alan Moore book.