An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence of Latour

Abstract

I offer a story of a memorable encounter with Bruno Latour when he visited Houston, TX, in 2007. I take this opportunity to reflect on the central role that relativism played in his thinking and writing, and how it related to my own experience in science studies. The reflection also raises the question of how relativism might still be a problem that haunts Latour’s more recent work on composing common worlds in the wake of climate change.