Latour, Bruno

"Facts need advocates to circulate and persist."

"The social does not explain technology; technology helps explain the social."

"Every action is distributed across multiple actors."

"We are all agents, but we are distributed agents."

"The world is made up of associations, not substances."

"Art is a way of making the invisible visible."

"Politics is the art of composing worlds."

"Belief and knowledge are not opposed categories."

"The boundary between the human and non-human is porous."

"We must develop new sensitivities to what makes up our world."

"Modernity promised purity; it produced proliferating hybrids."

"Every fact is laden with interpretation and judgment."

"The social order is built on associations between heterogeneous elements."

"Innovation is translation across different communities of practice."

"We are never outside the systems we critique."

"Objects are condensed networks of relations."

"The world is composed through ongoing associations and disassociations."

"We must become sensitive to the politics of things."

"Nature and society are products of the same processes."

"The laboratory is a space where the social and natural are made and remade."

"Authority requires the work of making and maintaining."

"We live in a pluriverse of different orders."

"Facts are constructed, but they are not thereby less real or objective."

"The distinction between centers and peripheries is always contestable."

"We must learn to live with our implication in the world."

"Objects are not just symbols; they are actants in their own right."

"Every network is simultaneously a distribution of power."

"The modern world is composed of unprecedented hybrids."

"We must become attentive to the work of ordering the world."

"The human is not at the center of the world; it is one actor among many."