We Have Never Been Modern

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1.CRISIS 1.1 THE PROLIFERATION OF HYBRIDS = 1 1.2 RETYING THE GORDIAN KNOT = 3 1.3 THE CRISIS OF THE CRITICAL STANCE = 5 1.4 1989: THE YEAR OF MIRACLES = 8 1.5 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MODERN? = 10 2.CONSTITUTION 2.1 THE MODERN CONSTITUTION = 13 2.2 BOYLE AND HIS OBJECTS = 15 2.3 HOBBES AND HIS SUBJECTS = 18 2.4 THE MEDIATION OF THE LABORATORY = 20 2.5 THE TESTIMONY OF NONHUMANS = 22 2.6 THE DOUBLE ARTIFACT OF THE LABORATORY AND THE LEVIATHAN = 24 2.7 SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION = 27 2.8 THE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES OF THE MODERN = 29 2.9 THE FOURTH GUARANTEE: THE CROSSED-OUT GOD = 32 2.10 THE POWER OF THE MODERN CRITIQUE = 35 2.11 THE INVINCIBILITY OF THE MODERNS = 37 2.12 WHAT THE CONSTITUTION CLARIFIES AND WHAT IT OBSCURES = 39 2.13 THE END OF DENUNCIATION = 43 2.14 WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN = 46 3.REVOLUTION 3.1 THE MODERNS, VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN SUCCESS = 49 3.2 WHAT IS A QUASI-OBJECT? = 51 3.3 PHILOSOPHIES STRETCHED OVER THE YAWNING GAP = 55 3.4 THE END OF ENDS = 59 3.5 SEMIOTIC TURNS = 62 3.6 WHO HAS FORGOTTEN BEING? = 65 3.7 THE BEGINNING OF THE PAST = 67 3.8 THE REVOLUTIONARY MIRACLE = 70 3.9 THE END OF THE PASSING PAST = 72 3.10 TRIAGE AND MULTIPLE TIMES = 74 3.11 A COPERNICAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION = 76 3.12 FROM INTERMEDIARIES TO MEDIATORS = 79 3.13 ACCUSATION, CAUSATION = 82 3.14 VARIABLE ONTOLOGIES = 85 3.15 CONNECTING THE FOUR MODERN REPERTOIRES = 88 4.RELATIVISM 4.1 HOW TO END THE ASYMMETRY = 91 4.2 THE PRINCIPLE OF SYMMETRY GENERALIZED = 94 4.3 THE IMPORT-EXPORT SYSTEM OF THE TWO GREAT DIVIDES = 97 4.4 ANTHROPOLOGY COMES HOME FROM THE TROPICS = 100 4.5 THERE ARE NO CULTURES = 103 4.6 SIZEABLE DIFFERENCES = 106 4.7 ARCHIMEDES' COUP D'EACUTE;T = 109 4.8 ATABSOLUTE RELATIVISIM AND RELATIVIST RELATIVISM = 111 4.9 SMALL MISTAKES CONCERNING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD = 114 4.10 EVEN A LONGER NETWORK REMAINS LOCAL AT ALL POINTS = 117 4.11 THE LEVIATHAN IS A SKEIN OF NETWORKS = 120 4.12 A PERVERSE TASTE FOR THE MARGINS = 122 4.13 AVOID ADDING NEW CRIMES TO OLD = 125 4.14 TRANSCENDENCES ABOUND = 127 5.REDISTRIBUTION 5.1 THE IMPOSSIBLE MODERNIZATION = 130 5.2 FINAL EXAMINATIONS = 132 5.3 HUMANISM REDISTRIBUTED = 136 5.4 THE NONMODERN CONSTITUTION = 138 5.5 THE PARLIAMENT OF THINGS = 142 BIBLIOGRAPHY = 146 INDEX = 154

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