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Revolution from Between: Latour’s Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern

Revolution from Between: Latour’s Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern Revolution from Between Latour's Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern laura hengehold In The Order of Things, Michel Foucault notes that ethnology was only possible due to an "absolutely singular event which involves not only our historicity but also that of all men who can constitute the object of an ethnology." This is a possibility that properly belongs to the history of our culture, even more to its fundamental relation with the whole of history, and enables it to link itself to other cultures in a mode of pure theory. . . . Obviously, this does not mean that the colonizing situation is indispensible to ethnology. . . . But just as [psychoanalysis] can be deployed only in the calm violence of a particular relationship and the transference it produces, so ethnology can assume its proper dimensions only within the historical sovereignty--always restrained, but always present-- of European thought and the relation that can bring it face to face with all other cultures as well as with itself.1 Bruno Latour mentions Foucault once in We Have Never Been Modern, and only indirectly--to deny the supposed "death of man."2 Nevertheless, I would argue that this book http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

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Revolution from Between Latour's Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern laura hengehold In The Order of Things, Michel Foucault notes that ethnology was only possible due to an "absolutely singular event which involves not only our historicity but also that of all men who can constitute the object of an ethnology." This is a possibility that properly belongs to the history of our culture, even more to its fundamental relation with the whole of history, and enables it to link itself to other cultures in a mode of pure theory. . . . Obviously, this does not mean that the colonizing situation is indispensible to ethnology. . . . But just as [psychoanalysis] can be deployed only in the calm violence of a particular relationship and the transference it produces, so ethnology can assume its proper dimensions only within the historical sovereignty--always restrained, but always present-- of European thought and the relation that can bring it face to face with all other cultures as well as with itself.1 Bruno Latour mentions Foucault once in We Have Never Been Modern, and only indirectly--to deny the supposed "death of man."2 Nevertheless, I would argue that this book

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