{"id":75,"date":"2023-05-06T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sapium.site\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2023-05-13T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T14:34:35","slug":"we-have-never-been-modern-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sapium.site\/wordpress\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"We Have Never Been Modern &#8211; CONTENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Have Never Been Modern<br>Bruno Latour<br>translated by Catherine Porter<br>Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CONTENTS<br>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CRISIS<br>1.1 The Proliferation of Hybrids 1152<br>1.2 Rerying the Gordian Knot 2789<br>1.3 The Crisis of the Critical Stance 2648<br>1.4 1989: The Year of Miracles<br>1.5 What Does It Mean To Be A Modern?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CONSTITUTION<br>2.1 The Modern Constitution<br>2.2 Boyle and His Objects<br>2.3 Hobbes and His Subjects<br>2.4 The Mediation of the Laboratory<br>2.5 The Testimony of Nonhumans<br>2.6 The Double Artifact of the Laboratory and the Leviathan<br>2.7 Scientific Representation and Political Representation<br>2.8 The Constitutional Guarantees of the Modern<br>2.9 The Fourth Guarantee: The Crossed-out God<br>2.10 The Power of the Modern Critique<br>2.11 The Invincibility of the Moderns<br>2.12 What the Constitution Clarifies and What It Obscures<br>2.13 The End of Denunciation<br>2.14 We Have Never Been Modern<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>REVOLUTION<br>3.1 The Moderns, Victims of Their Own Success<br>3.2 What Is a Quasi-Object?<br>3.3 Philosophies Stretched Over the Yawning Gap<br>3.4 The End of Ends<br>3.5 Semiotic Turns<br>3.6 Who Has Forgotten Being?<br>3.7 The Beginning of the Past<br>3.8 The Revolutionary Miracle<br>3.9 The End of the Passing Past<br>3.10 Triage and Multiple Times<br>3.11 A Copernican Counter-revolution<br>3.12 From Intermediaries to Mediators<br>3.13 Accusation, Causation<br>3.14 Variable Ontologies<br>3.15 Connecting the Four Modern Repertoires<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RELATIVISM<br>4.1 How to End the Asymmetry<br>4.2 The Principle of Symmetry Generalized<br>4.3 The Import-Export System of the Two Great Divides<br>4.4 Anthropology Comes Home from the Tropics<br>4.5 There Are No Cultures<br>4.6 Sizeable Differences<br>4.7 Archimedes&#8217; coup d&#8217;\u00e9t at<br>4.8 Absolute Relativisim and Relativist Relativism<br>4.9 Small Mistakes Concerning the Disenchantment of the World<br>4.10 Even a Longer Network Remains Local at All Points<br>4.11 The Leviathanis a Skein of Networks<br>4.12 A Perverse Taste for the Margins<br>4.13 Avoid Adding New Crimes to Old<br>4.14 Transcendences Abound<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>REDISTRIBUTION<br>5.1 The Impossible Modernization<br>5.2 Final Examinations<br>5.3 Humanism Redistributed<br>5.4 The Nonmodern Constitution<br>5.5 The Parliament of Things<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bibliography<br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br>In many places the English text differs from the French. I have modified the figures, added section 3.2 and qualified or clarified the argument without modifying its main structure. I have abstained from giving empirical examples in order to retain the speculative &#8211; and, I am afraid, very Gallic! &#8211; character of this essay. Many case studies, including several by myself, will be found in the bibliography. Having written several empirical books, I am trying here to bring the emerging field of science studies to the attention of the literate public through the philosophy associated with this domain.<br>Many people have tried to make this essay less unreasonable. Among them I especially thank Luc Boltanski, Francis Chateauraynaud, Elizabeth Claverie, Gerard de Vries, Francois G\u00e9ze and Isabelle Stenger.<br>I thank Harry Collins, Ernan McMullin, Jim Griesemer, Michel Izard, Clifford Geertz and Peter Galison for allowing me to present the arguments of this essay in their seminars.<br>Parts of Chapter 2 have been published in \u2018Postmodern? No, simply amodern: steps towards an anthropology of science. An essay review\u2019, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 21: (1990) 145-71. Some of the arguments in Chapter 3 have appeared in a different form in \u2018One more turn after the social turn: easing science studies into the non- modern world\u2019, in E. McMullin, ed., The Social Dimensions of Science. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1992, pp. 272-92.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Have Never Been ModernBruno Latourtranslated by Catherine PorterHarvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts CONTENTSAcknowledgements BibliographyIndex ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSIn many places the English text differs from the French. I have modified the figures, added section 3.2 and qualified or clarified the argument without modifying its main structure. 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