[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human cu

Randall Styers
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Bruno Latour is a French sociologist. He is one of the founders of the field of social theory known as science fiction studies. He is known for his work on science fiction, and post-colonial studies. Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture. Lacan (1956) famously argued that the subject was constituted by its relationship to language, which meant that being a subject meant being able to talk about being a subject, either as a self-reflexive utterance or as an introspective gesture. For Lacan, words are not only statements that point beyond themselves, they are also points at which other statements can be made. In other words, language creates the field in which other statements can be made about it.

Source: Making Magic: Religion, Magic, And Science In The Modern World

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