The Eurozone crisis of 2010- was traumatic but it also seems hard to deny that the crisis concentrated minds on the European public sphere to an unprecedented degree. Here, media coverage of ECB. ecb.europa.eu/pub/economic-b… https://t.co/aFcyO5YHLW
"The very size of a totalitarian State is obtained only by the construction of a network of statistics and calculations, of offices and inquiries, which in no way corresponds to the fantastic topography of the total State (Desrosieres, 1990).” @BrunoLatourAIME 1991, 122. https://t.co/c84X07Nnhi
"US big business as described by Alfred Chandler is not the Organization described by Kafka. It is a braid of networks materialized in order slips and flow charts, local procedures and special arrangements, which permit it to spread to an entire continent” @BrunoLatourAIME https://t.co/7T6ODzgI3j
RT @BJMbraun: Retweet if you'd like the ECB to answer this one (and trust us you do) twitter.com/jvtklooster/st…
RT @BJMbraun: Kudos to the central bank of Malaysia for its response to Mersch's office: "If you insist on extending the formal invitation…
"What psychologist will be subtle enough to explain our morose delight in being in perpetual crisis and in putting an end to history?” @BrunoLatourAIME 1991! 1991! https://t.co/P4RrWAjbFy
RT @heimbergecon: Freue mich über meinen Kommentar im @handelsblatt: Warum eine Randbemerkung der EZB-Präsidentin ein vernichtendes Urteil…
RT @BJMbraun: Omg four hours of de Cecco chatting about the gold standard and all the rest of it youtube.com/watch?v=HoxLJI…
RT @miguelitoj89: In Zeiten von steigender #Ungleichheit und #Klimakrise müssen wir über Zentralbankpolitik sprechen! Das tun wir mit @Fina…
RT @BJMbraun: "How is there no up-to-date historical overview on industrial policy in the EU?" <– Many people, all the time. Now: 👇 https…
RT @BJMbraun: Makes my copy my most valuable (marked to market) possession. h/t @donadica https://t.co/vMxkqGR07v
RT @fichtner_jan: New: "The world's largest asset managers 2020" – a 🧵 AUM of the world’s top 500 managers increased by 14.8% in 2019 to $…
"we might compare scientific facts to frozen fish: the cold chain that keeps them fresh must not be interrupted, however briefly.” @BrunoLatourAIME In iconoclastic materialist mood. We Have Never Been Modern, 119. https://t.co/i8EbvMpLQj
"The capitalism of Karl Marx or Fernand Braudel is not the total capitalism of later Marxists. It is a skein of somewhat longer networks that rather inadequately embrace a world on the basis of points that become centres of profit and calculation.” @BrunoLatourAIME 1991, 121 https://t.co/eiL9rcvo2z
"When info is measured in bytes, when one plugs into a data bank, it is harder to picture universal thought as a spirit hovering over the waters. Reason today has more in common with a cable TV network than with Platonic ideas." @BrunoLatourAIME in full materialist mode! https://t.co/B0dSVjJHzP
RT @RiouxRemy: This is, very precisely, the purpose of the @FinanceInCommon Summit. @BrunoLatourAIME @adam_tooze @picharbonnier https://t.c…
Beyond “Them and Us”: Choose 4.3.4! Rereading, once again, @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern I love pages 102-3. https://t.co/7NnNWP2HUo
"There are continuous paths that lead from the local to the global, from the circumstantial to the universal, from the contingent to the necessary, ONLY so long as the branch lines are paid for.” @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern 1991, 117. https://t.co/AP9F3M9btH
"we tend to transform the lengthened networks of Westerners into systematic & global totalities. To dispel this mystery, follow the paths that allow this variation in scale; look at networks of facts & laws rather as one looks at gas lines or sewage pipes.” @BrunoLatourAIME 1991 https://t.co/vv9qIhQtM2
"The aggregates are not made from some substance different from what they are aggregating (Thevenot, 1989, 1990). No visible or invisible hand suddenly descends to bring order to dispersed and chaotic individual atoms.” @BrunoLatourAIME 1991, 122. Yes, Im on a French 80s-90s tip! https://t.co/GVLgTk0l1O
. @metmuseum which relies on ticket sales & other purchases from visitors for c. 1/3 of annual revenue, has already had two rounds of employee cuts, leaving the museum with a staff 20 % smaller than it was before the pandemic. @ZacharyHSmall @juliarebeccaj nytimes.com/2020/10/26/art… https://t.co/1hhUjfhBpK
"Moderns confused products with processes. They believed that production of bureaucratic rationalization presupposed rational bureaucrats; production of abstraction was itself abstract. We might as well say that a refinery produces oil in a refined manner" @BrunoLatourAIME 1991 https://t.co/RhjFAv6J37
"How could we be chilled by the cold breath of the sciences, when the sciences are hot and fragile, human and controversial, full of thinking reeds and of subjects who are themselves inhabited by things (Pickering, 1992)?” @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern, 115. https://t.co/QeJlyNezBf
RT @DEHEdgerton: @adam_tooze @BrunoLatourAIME Funnily enough also reading this today – for class with grad students. Forgotten the extent t…
RT @JohnDStats: @adam_tooze @BrunoLatourAIME Tradition is not repetition.
"What are we to do, if we can move neither forward nor backward? Displace our attention. We have never moved either forward or backward. We have always sorted out elements belonging to different times. We can still sort. It is the sorting that makes the times." @BrunoLatourAIME https://t.co/45SBXgbXpa
"How could we be capable of disenchanting the world, when every day our laboratories and our factories populate the world with hundreds of hybrids stranger than those of the day before?” @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern 1991/3. https://t.co/47Fu4tSGfZ
RT @bbaschuk: The @wto's leadership selection process is a complex and opaque beast. Here's a look under the hood: twitter.com/bbaschuk/statu…
"Haven't we frightened ourselves enough with the poor European who is thrust into a cold soulless cosmos, wandering on an inert planet in a world devoid of meaning?” Max Weber, @BrunoLatourAIME is looking at you! We Have Never Been Modern. https://t.co/7HtZ3E8ce7
"We cannot return to the past, to tradition, to repetition, because these great immobile domains are the inverted image of the earth that is no longer promised to us today: progress, permanent revolution, modernization, forward flight.” @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern https://t.co/rJ5MgOcRHA
One is not born traditional; one chooses to become traditional by constant innovation. @BrunoLatourAIME We Have Never Been Modern https://t.co/2nYQEKA82B
News out of Zanzibar is deeply worrying: Police and military repression enforcing one-party rule. Has long been the bloodiest battleground of Tanzanian politics. twitter.com/fatma_karume/s…
As Peguy's Clio said, and as Michel Serres repeats, 'we are exchangers and brewers of time' (Serres and Latour, 1992) https://t.co/UWtoRi2xaR
This is an invaluable thread on the dictatorial manipulation of Tanzanian elections by ruling party CCM that should be attracting our attention. Tanzania is one of the success stories of E Africa. But its politics are increasingly authoritarian. twitter.com/Fromagehomme/s…
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