Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
these propositions well-articulated or not? Do they form a good or a bad common world? It no longer suffices to exist in the upp ...
row, the moderns are sure, the distinction will be sharper; we shall be able to pry the established facts more decisively away f ...
have to be instituted. A bombardment of objects out of nowhere and not made by human hands pushes representations ever further b ...
Must it abandon forward movement? For want of being modern, must it resign itself to the postmoderns’ running in place? Or, wors ...
to add another certainty: tomorrow, the collective will be more intri- cate than it was yesterday. We shall indeed have to invol ...
When the moderns, God’s equals, finally became coextensive with Creation, they chose that moment to fall into the most complete ...
They have believed themselves irreversible, without ever managing to make anything irreversible. All those appellants remain beh ...
ecology thus does not share in the same history as that of modern progress. We are going to be able to entrust treasures to the ...
ble to pass through a trial and to know a little more about it. Experi- ments, as any researcher worthy of the name knows quite ...
standard would one judge the weakness of this norm? If it is by con- trast with the definitive knowledge supplied by objective f ...
For the same reason, we can speak again about morality without finding ourselves paralyzed by the question of foundations. In th ...
scriptible right to ignore the majority of beings to the necessity of ex- cluding none of them. Complexity, “total connectivity, ...
duced and the full-scale models, and it allows us to deploy the passage from one to the other over time. On one condition, howev ...
exploration of experimental metaphysics. Unexpected consequences proliferated nevertheless, and were always surprising, for they ...
the two other powers, defined in Chapter 4: history has not advanced far enough and the grip of modernism is still too strong. F ...
all the competencies without managing to redistinguish them, plung- ing arbitration and arbitrariness into the same neglect of d ...
both houses? Who will archive the results, little by little? The politi- cians, the moralists, the scientists, the economizers m ...
ment when the collective is defined no longer by a nature but by ex- perimentation, it is going to be necessary to have access n ...
other. Their flair will help us sense in which direction to lead the col- lective—provided that we add to it the remarkable flai ...
not with a destiny of total recapitulation close to absolute Mind, but with a simple and very modestlearning compact that alone ...
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