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" The first set of practices, by "translation," creates mixtures between entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture. The second, by "purification," creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that... "
Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter - Page 76
by Webb Keane - 2007 - 336 pages
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Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "outside"

Cary Wolfe - Philosophy - 1998 - 212 pages
..."creates mixtures between entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture," it "creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other" (10-11). For Latour, this structure has the pragmatic payoff of enabling...
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Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity

William Rasch, Cary Wolfe - 318 pages
...between entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture." On the other, it "creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other" (10-11). For Latour, this structure has the pragmatic payoff of enabling...
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Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society

Andrew Barry - Political Science - 2001 - 322 pages
...cosmopolitan democracy see Archibugi, Held and Kohler 1995, Beck 2000. 34 '"Purification" creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other' (Latour 1993, pp. 10-11). 35 A striated space is one in which lines...
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Science and an African Logic

Helen Verran - Philosophy - 2001 - 298 pages
...entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture. The second by 'purification' creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of non-humans on the other. Without the first set the practices of purification would be pointless....
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Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition

Timothy W. Luke - Culture conflict - 2002 - 336 pages
...entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture," and purification, which "creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other."19 Museums play a vital role in these purification projects by stabilizing...
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Analysing Social Policy: A Governmental Approach

Greg Marston, Catherine McDonald - Political Science - 2006 - 264 pages
...of beings, hybrids of nature and culture' (10). The second set is 'purification' which 'creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand' and 'nonhumans' on the other (11). Modern culture is thus characterized by dual processes: the production...
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Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology, and Cultural Resistance

Dot Tuer - Art - 2006 - 232 pages
...new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture. The second, 2 7 by "purification," creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other. THE HEART Without the first, practices of purification would be fruitless...
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Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

Webb Keane - Religion - 2007 - 339 pages
...with a denial of twelve heresies before it gets to any positive claims (Pelikan and Hotchkiss 2003b: 543-55). And creeds offer the speaking subject a discursive...'constantly in mind,' it aspires to function as a shared'rule of faith' and of conduct, much as creeds do" (2003:304-5). For the constitutive effects...
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A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna

Paul Rutherford - Social Science - 2007 - 385 pages
...entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture. The second, by "purification," creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other.' Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 10-11. Conclusion 1 My extension...
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