Cogitamus

Seminal case studies on collective thinking by the founder of political ecology.

»Cogito ergo sum« – »I think, therefore I am.«

With this sentence, Descartes founded rationalist thinking in the modern age. Bruno Latour replaces the singular with the plural and thereby emphasizes that it is always collectives who think. These collectives, according to Latour, also includeinanimate objects as well as technology. Latour had previously substantiated this theory in his seminal interdisciplinary case studies on Pasteur’s laboratory and the failed Parisian public transport project Aramis. In Cogitamus, Latour illuminates his complex theories in a colourful way by writing fictional letters to a German student, who for mysterious reasons always misses his lectures.