This author discussed the acts of "translation" between nature and culture and "purification" between humans and non-humans as creating the Two Great Divides.
This thinker called making objects available for discourse the "mobilization of the world," which is the first of five loops that allow for the successful circulation of reference. In one diagram by him, the left face of Janus says: "When things are true they hold," while the right says: "When things hold they start becoming true." This author discussed the acts of "translation" between nature and culture and "purification" between humans and non-humans as creating the Two Great Divides. One book by him describes an (*) Amazon expedition trying to figure out whether the forest is encroaching on the savanna, or vice versa. He popularized referring to technology becoming invisible by its success as "blackboxing." With Michel Callon and John Law, this author of Pandora's Hope developed Actor-Network Theory. For 10 points, name this French philosopher of science, the author of We Have Never Been Modern and Science in Action.
This thinker called making objects available for discourse the "mobilization of the world," which is the first of five loops that allow for the successful circulation of reference.
Bruno Latour