This chapter explores the educational implications of Bruno Latour’s work and takes it beyond the confinements of his call for political action. Starting from Hannah Arendt’s understanding of education as a matter of love for the world, I argue that Latour’s oeuvre, and especially the consistent use of diagrams throughout his work, offers a perspective for understanding how particular educational efforts can offer a way to address the ecological and societal crises we are faced with. This regards study practices in which we try not to represent the world, so much as to performatively make the world present in such a way that this world can be transformed and that we start caring for it. To substantiate these claims we need to turn to an often forgotten source of inspiration behind Latour’s thinking, viz. Gilles Deleuze’s radically immanent understanding of (social) reality. This call for study practices entails not only a collective effort of gathering around matters of concern, or better matters of care, but also a sharpening of our experiential dealing with the world, and hence an education of the senses.

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The Art of Diagramming: Tracing the Educational in Latour with the Help of Deleuze

  • Joris Vlieghe

摘要

This chapter explores the educational implications of Bruno Latour’s work and takes it beyond the confinements of his call for political action. Starting from Hannah Arendt’s understanding of education as a matter of love for the world, I argue that Latour’s oeuvre, and especially the consistent use of diagrams throughout his work, offers a perspective for understanding how particular educational efforts can offer a way to address the ecological and societal crises we are faced with. This regards study practices in which we try not to represent the world, so much as to performatively make the world present in such a way that this world can be transformed and that we start caring for it. To substantiate these claims we need to turn to an often forgotten source of inspiration behind Latour’s thinking, viz. Gilles Deleuze’s radically immanent understanding of (social) reality. This call for study practices entails not only a collective effort of gathering around matters of concern, or better matters of care, but also a sharpening of our experiential dealing with the world, and hence an education of the senses.