Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern
28 - networks: social relations, powers, forms, societies
30 - work of purification: confronting a separation of nature + culture.
---> Does Anne Norton deal with this in 95 theses?
32 - does the work of purification remain distinct from the work of mediation?
33 - "The moderns could now be both secular and pious at the same time." (is this from Weber?)
---> this is the legacy of the Reformation.
- rise of the private God (p. 34); even the Lord becomes private property?
34 - "He would no longer interfere in any way with the development of moderns, but remained effective and helpful within the spirit of humans alone."
- the play with paradoxes give moderns power (34)
Sec. 2.11 - critique...and "modern"; "they have believed they were invincible" ---> this refers to the critical apparatus
41 - compatibility of hybridization and constitutional order.
42 - "What the premoderns have always ruled out the moderns can allow, since the social order never turns out to correspond, point for point, with the natural order."
43 - purification (attempts at it) leads, unwittingly, to greater hybridization?
- actor-network theory; derived from Hobbes?
- Nature, Society, and God
45 - "Today, denunciation and revolution have both gone stale."
- Rene Girard does consider objects as "counting"
46 - "Underneath moral grandeur there is the meticulous tirage of circumstances and cases..."
46 - Latour tears into postmodernism; seeing it as extending an already moribound critique; "disconnected instants and groundless denunciations, since the postmoderns no longer believe in the reasons that would allow them to denounce and to become indignent."
47 - "No one has ever been modern. Modernity has never begun. There has never been a modern world."
47 - so postmodernity, is "post" of something that may never have been? Is it anymore groundless than before?
48 - the modern world seen as networks? "The antimoderns, like the postmoderns, have accepted their adversaries playing field."
- two parallel constitutions: Boyle and Hobbes
