Paideia in precariousness: to make sense in common

Abstract

“There is no common world,” stated Bruno Latour in a Manifesto, “there never was.” How then do we get used to imagining the existence of a consensus that, overcoming disagreements and conflicts, cemented our common existence? And if the disputes, far from being passing and superficial phenomena to be attributed to pedagogical and communication errors, as Modernity supposed, were the very life of the pluriverse we inhabit? Then, how to avoid thinking that the mere idea of an unshakable truth, only accessible by specialized knowledge, by a science above values and apart from human interests, was one of the first fake news of Modernity? The common world “is yet to be composed,” insists Latour. But, how to do it? This is what the present text intends to discuss, with the support of Isabelle Stengers’ works.