A Goats Story. Postcards from the “Metamorphic Zone”

To bridge the Great Divide between subject and object, Bruno Latour uses the notions of 'agency', which neutralises this division, and 'metamorphic zone', as the place where 'performances' of an anonymous agency are translated into 'skills' of an identified ag...

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Published inPhilobiblon (Cluj, Romania) Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 211 - 234
Main Author Cavallin, Jean-Cristophe
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cluj-Napoca The Lucian Blaga Central University Library; Research Department, Cluj, Romania 01.01.2023
Lucian Blaga
SeriesModernism and Bruno Latour: For a Resumption of Modernity
Subjects
Goats
Humanities and Social Sciences
Hypotheses
Latour, Bruno
Modernity
Ontology
object/subject
Bruno Latour
Metamorphic zone
agency
Metamorphic zone agency Bruno Latour modernity object/subject
modernity
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Summary:To bridge the Great Divide between subject and object, Bruno Latour uses the notions of 'agency', which neutralises this division, and 'metamorphic zone', as the place where 'performances' of an anonymous agency are translated into 'skills' of an identified agent. But in literature, as the repressed often returns in defence formations, this translation tends to describe agents in the distorted guise of subjects - i.e. as persons or characters. This article proposes to reevaluate the notion of agency in the light of the notion of form, and thus explore a way to shunt the anthropormorphic bias where still dwells the spectre of our thwarted modernity.
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ISSN:1224-7448
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DOI:10.26424/philobib.2023.28.2.03