Synopsis
An argument that modernity's strict split between nature and society is an illusion, since the world is full of hybrids that cross both.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workModerns claim to separate nature from culture even as they multiply hybrids of both, so the modern divide was never truly achieved.
It dissolves a foundational dichotomy of modern thought, reshaping how we understand science, politics, and the things that mix them.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.
Reading note
Read it as a short, dense argument in science studies; its provocation is conceptual, aimed at how moderns describe themselves.
Best paired with
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity