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Paris: Invisible City
Bruno Latour & Emilie Hermant

Translated from the French by Liz Carey-Libbrecht
Corrected February 2006 by Valérie Pihet

We often tend to contrast real and virtual, hard urban reality and electronic utopias. This work tries to show that real cities have a lot in common with Italo Calvino’s “invisible cities”. As congested, saturated and asphyxiated as it may be, in the invisible city of Paris we may learn to breathe more easily, provided we alter our social theory.

Read more about the philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour.