This article seeks to reassess Latour's relation to philosophy through an examination of the many references to cartography in his work. Whereas in his early writings maps were treated as striking examples of the way science produces truth, his latest writings ascribe a more central function to cartography. During this time of global warming, Latour's thinking calls for a cartographic philosophy rooted in the notion of territory, which develops both an "ambulatory" method and a conceptual project of resistance to what Whitehead called the "bifurcation of nature".
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North West Univ Potchefstroom, Sch Philosophy, Potchefstroom, South AfricaNorth West Univ Potchefstroom, Sch Philosophy, Potchefstroom, South Africa