Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Isn't That a Hybrid?
Electricity started as a purification of cold and dark. We did not like these aspects of nature, so we burned coal to get electricity. Then we created another hybrid, which is pollution, or it's an admixture of nature and culture. So the harder we try to purify, this is central irony of the modern constitution,. The harder we trying to keep nature and culture apart, the more hybrids we proliferate.
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