We Have Never Been Modern

@inproceedings{Latour1991WeHN,
  title={We Have Never Been Modern},
  author={Bruno Latour},
  year={1991}
}
What makes us modern? This is a classic question in philosophy as well as in political science. However it is often raised without including science and technology in its definition. The argument of this book is that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology. This division allows the formidable expansion of the Western empires. However it has become more and more difficult to maintain this distance between science and… 
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