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From Latour to late industrialism
Abstract
I situate Latour’s latest project—An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME)—in the context of late industrialism and query both its conceptual underpinnings and the design of its digital platform. I argue that Latour’s semiotics (and associated conceptions of both networks and ontologies) are functionalist in a way that mimics industrial logic, discounting both the production of hierarchical differentiation within a given system, and the system’s externalizations. The approach thus underestimates the toxicity of its vitalism.
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- Authors
- Fortun, K.
- Venue
- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 309-329
- ISSN
- 2049-1115 (ISSN-L)
- 2575-1433
- OpenAlex
- W2083606666
- Cited by
- 262
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 163.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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