Since my work in the project will be mainly of a philosophical nature and a future aspect of my work will be to interpret/translate/adapt the findings of the social scientists in the group into insights about the motivations and worldviews of the peoples and groups they have studied, I have been investigating current theorists – not necessarily philosophers – who are offerings certain observations/takes of the current world situation from their own investigations. So I have been immersed in a number of recent books.
- Following Bruno Latour beyond his “reassembling” stage, I have been reading his latest books:
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2013) and Facing Gaia: A New Inquiry into Natural Religions (2014).
- I had read the political theorist William E. Connolly previously but I was extremely taken with his comments at the last AAR panel that looked at Latour –which Sara Pike chaired. I was intrigued with his perceptive criticism of Latour and so I have now started on his most recent books:
A World of Becoming (2011) and The Fragility of Things (2013)
Both authors have provided much food for thought.
- Morny Joy