Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern

Latour comments on the issues that most critics are looking into, emphasizing the editorial in the New York Times magazine. He emancipates the public from prematurely naturalized objectified facts, for he has been accused of fooling the public by obscuring the certainty of a closed argument, although he has spent time in showing the lack of scientific certainty. He also argues that if the critical mind renews itself and be relevant again, it has to be found in the cultivation of a stubbornly realist attitude and deal the realism of matters of concern and not matters of fact.