Splatając na nowo Latoura z Foucaultem:
Reconnecting Latour with Foucault:

From the Ethnography to the Archeology of the Humanities Laboratory

Summary/Abstract: This article is a methodological assessment of the studies performed as part of theproject “Laboratorium humanistyczne jako modus poznania” [The Humanities Laboratoryas a Mode of Knowing]. Ethnographical studies of the laboratory by Bruno Latour andothers are juxtaposed with Michel Foucault’s archeological approach and the authorshighlight links between the two. Although the ethnography of the laboratory makes itpossible to draw attention to the still underrated significance of infrastructure in theproduction of knowledge in the humanities, this approach mostly focuses on exploringnaturalist laboratories, thus making it impossible to define the identity of the humanitieslaboratory. The perspective of the archeology of knowledge allows us to peek into thestill unacknowledged history of the humanities laboratories and it sets into motion thetranscendental reel – a precondition for the hipoepistemic perspective and for becomingaware of what is on the surface of knowledge as well as of what is underneath.

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