Bruno Latour; Technology is Society Made Durable PDF.
Object Oriented Ontology
"We observe a process of translation, not one of
reception, rejection, resistance, or acceptance." (116)
Bruno Latour; We Have Never Been Modern PDF complete.
"The smallest AIDS virus takes you from sex to the unconscious, then to Africa, tissue cultures, DNA and San Francisco, but the analysts, thinkers, journalists and decision-makers will slice the delicate network traced by the virus for you into tidy compartments where you will find only science, only economy, only social phenomena, only local news, only sentiment, only sex. Press the most innocent aerosol button and you'll be heading for the Antarctic, and from there to the University of California at Irvine, the mountain ranges of Lyon, the chemistry of inert gases, and then maybe to the United Nations, but this fragile thread will be broken into as many segments as there are pure disciplines. By all means, they seem to say, let us not mix up knowledge, interest, justice and power. Let us not mix up heaven and earth, the global stage and the local scene, the human and the nonhuman...on the left, they have put knowledge of things; on the right, power and human politics. " (2-3)
PUT IT ALL TOGETHER>AND WHAT DO YOU GET?