RHETOR 103B Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Bruno Latour, Deconstruction, Construction Management
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If reading the daily paper is modern man"s form of prayer, it is a very strange man who is doing the praying today while reading about these mixed up affairs. In today"s intellectual culture we do not know how categorize situations, so we always add a qualifier of science and technology . We rely on the notion of translation. Misunderstanding: if the facts do not the occupy the simultaneously marginal and sacred place our worship has reserved for them, then it seems that they are immediately reduced to pure local contingency and sterile machinations. Misunderstandings: it is true that those who bracket of the external referent - the nature of things - and the speaker - the pragmatic or social context - can talk only about meaning effects and language games. There have been 3 approached developed to talking about the world (1) naturalization (2) socialization and (3) deconstruction.
