Ep. 230: Bruno Latour on Science, Culture, and Modernity (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Mediation Is the Process of Making Hybrids
Mediation is the process that makes hybrids. So i mediation is the process of admixing nature and culture. In the boil case, the mediation that boyle created there was the air pump. And so what latour would say here is this thing is a quasi object, and we need a form of law. That's part of what he wants in his constitution. We need external truth and subjects of law.
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