while freedom from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimenta
~ Randall Styers
Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter
[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human cu