Because we were never modern. Bruno Latour’s relational ontology
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https://doi.org/10.32735/S0718-22012022000551101Keywords:
Bruno Latour, relational ontology, modernity, Ulrich Beck, Stephen ToulminAbstract
Bruno Latour’s We have never been modern was published first thirty years ago, in 1991. This is probably Latour’s most important work, and, beyond any doubt, the most popular. In this book, Latours made explicit for the first time some of his thoughts on relational ontology, that positioned his work among the most exciting and expiring, but also discussed, of the 21st century, that deeply influenced to the new materialism movement or Graham Harman’s Object Oriented Ontology. In this article, I will locate this work in its historical and intellectual context. I will present Latour’s main thesis and connect then with his early work.
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