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Closereads: Philosophy with Mark and WesA Partially Examined Life Podcast Author: Evergreen Podcasts
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Latour on Materialism
Tuesday, 20 January, 2026
Mark and Wes read and discuss the short 2007 article, "Can We Get Our Materialism Back, Please?" Here Bruno Latour complains that materialism as modern common sense conceives of it is actually idealist: It is a social construction. Instead, a "thick" concept of material things acknowledges and details their historical (i.e. material in the Marxist sense) origins. Read along with us. You can choose to watch this on video. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
