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How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies

Latour, Bruno·2004·Body & Society
DOI 10.1177/1357034x04042943
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Science studies has often been against the normative dimension of epistemology, which made a naturalistic study of science impossible. But this is not to say that a new type of normativity cannot be detected at work inscience studies. This is especially true in the second wave of studies dealing with the body, which has aimed at criticizing the physicalization of the body without falling into the various traps of a phenomenology simply added to a physical substrate. This article explores the work of Isabelle Stengers and Vinciane Despret in that respect, and shows how it can be used to rethink the articulation between the various levels that make up a body.

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  • The travesti body is articulated as a subject by learning to resonate with other bodies, and it is affected by its reverberation with other bodies that must exist for hers to make sense.

    “The travesti body is articulated as a subject by learning to resonate with other bodies. It gains traction in its pull toward others, a tactile history of desire. The travesti body is affected by its reverberation with other bodies, those other bodies that must exist in order for hers to make sense, to be.”

    From I Monster: Embodying Trans and<i>Travesti</i>Resistance in Latin America (2020) · cites this paper as Latour 2004, 208

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Authors
Latour, B.
Affiliations
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (FR)
Corresponding author
Latour, Bruno
ORCID
Latour, Bruno
Venue
Body & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2004-06
Volume
10
Issue
2-3
Pages
205-229
ISSN
  • 1357-034X (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3632
DOI
10.1177/1357034x04042943
OpenAlex
W2118453479
Cited by
1,367
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FWCI
423.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Body & Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Bioethics and Human Rights Issues
Keywords
normativity, science studies, body, Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret, naturalism, phenomenology, epistemology of science

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