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Bruno Latour

Personfirst used December 2025

What I take from Latour is his Gaia and his critique of "the social". My metabology reruns Reassembling the Social with "metabolic" in place of "social".

How the word moved

In November 2025 his Gaia showed up in the third part of PAPE. In December 2025 I swapped one word in his argument and ran it again. It's an old trick of mine.

In my words

"Now replace ‘social’ by ‘metabolic,’ and run this argument anew."

from Bhumics. Weekly Planet #18. Ideology vs. Metabology, 22 Dec 2025

Related

  • Related Gaia - Latour's Gaia.
  • Related Metabology - it reruns his argument.
  • Related Benjamin Bratton - the Berggruen crowd also rejects a sentimental Gaia, like Latour.