10 October

I've been dreading this day. Latour was probably my greatest influence in thinking about the world, I can't even begin to describe the ways his genius changed the way we can think about everything. His own mentor Michel Serres died only recently too. Bruno was also a marker on my PhD over 30 years ago now, and didn't ask me to make one change, which was nice. We sometimes swapped emails and he made me see my own first training as a materials scientist in a whole new way. He was the reason I went on to do philosophy as PG training. He was an international academic celebrity when he died, the most important thinker alive, I think. So funny, such a brilliant writer, he taught me (which he says he learned from the authors of the Bible) that you have to write in ways that draw people in. The French President spoke beautifully of his life. A wonderful spirit gone, I couldn't recommend a more amazing person for people to read.