more or less noisily to be part of our Republic. There is nothing left of
the old metaphysics of nature, nothing left of the old allegory of the
Cave, although everything that matters to public life remains: real-
ity—the nonhumans and their cohorts; externality—produced accord-
ing to the rules and no longer surreptitiously; unity—the progressive
unity of the collective in the process of exploration; to which it suf-
fices to add the procedures for discussion that we must now make ex-
plicit.
Where does “external nature” now lie? It is right here: carefully nat-
uralized, that is, socialized right inside the expanding collective. It is
time to house it finally in a civil way by building it a definitive dwell-
ing place and offering it not the simple slogan of the early democra-
cies—“No taxation without representation”—but a riskier and more
ambitious maxim—“No reality without representation!”
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