Modern practices, modern thinking (in Latour)
 

Mol (30-1) summarzies Latour:
 
"All modern thinkers, he claims, glorify their ability to distinguish between natural and social phenomena, disqualifying those who are 'unable' to do so as premoderns."
 
However, "in the practices of the so-called modern world the natural and the social are as intertwined as they are in so-called premodern thinking. This implies that there are clashes between the knowledge articulated in technoscience societies and the knowledges embedded in their practices."
 
"Therefore, modernity is a state we have never been in"

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology and Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #knowledge, #nature, #intelligence

> created February 14, 2024 at 10:03:25 AM


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