Back to field work: Critical Zones
A few tweets written by Bruno Latour on his new field work (Critical zones):
BL is back to fieldwork 40 years after first arriving at Salk Institute in San Diego: now it is 'critical zones' in the South Sierra network
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015BL has writer earlier a paper to introduce his field study to the scientists he wished to interview and work with: http://t.co/MNivOvcTb7
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015Fascinating to observe directly the disconnect between watershed on top of Sierra Nevada & water use down in the Central Valley: no relation
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015Upstream & downstream of rivers don't make one single flow especially in California. Here the decoupling nature/society is maximal & deadly.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015If science had started with dynamics of watershed, there would have been no Newton: it had to start with a much simpler case: the universe.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015Here in California the difficulty of building loops à la Dewey between actions & consequences is maximum even with instruments for science.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015Critical zone is not term of philo but of geochemistry to designate the zone indeed critical between top of tree & deep rock: Gaia's skin.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015A tree in the South Sierra Critical Zone fully equipped in probes for 'intensive care with Joe & Sepeek in attendance pic.twitter.com/GfQ4WYVrEY
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015There's a nice continuity between the simulation of Paris Make it Work in May where soil was represented & instrument to represent soil here
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015Representing soil requires to link 3 meanings of what's to represent: scientific, politic and artistic, then negotiations may really start.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 2 Juillet 2015