Latour, Bruno

"We must become friends with the world and all its actors"

"Tracing reveals the hidden work that keeps our worlds stable"

"The future depends on our ability to care for the networks that sustain us"

"Nature and culture have never been separate; only our thinking has been confused"

"To study anything is to become part of what you study"

"Power does not corrupt networks; networks constitute power through association"

"We live in a time when ecology must become the primary science"

"The modern world collapsed the moment it tried to establish pure domains"

"We have never been modern because modernity was always about a certain staging of the world, not about its reality."

"The word 'translation' is not the transport of a word from one language to another, it is a complete transformation of a thing into something else."

"Objects are not in the world; they constitute the world through their relations and interactions."

"To follow the actors themselves requires that we learn to notice what they notice and to follow the details of their practices."

"Nature has never been separate from culture; this is the great illusion of modernism."

"The collective is not given; it must be assembled, composed, and carefully maintained."

"An actor is what is made to act by many other actors, to which it lends its shape, its action, its trajectory, its positioning."

"Politics is not a domain that contains society; it is what allows for the composition of the common world."

"We must learn to think without the support of the modern constitution that divides nature from culture."

"The crisis of objectivity is not a crisis of knowledge but a crisis of representation."

"Facts are not found in nature; they are slowly and carefully constructed by assemblies of people and things."

"To describe is not to remain passive; description is already a form of intervention in the world."

"We cannot step outside of networks; we are always already embedded in them."

"The association between humans and non-humans is the primary reality of the social world."

"Risk is not something we can manage away; it is constitutive of modern life."

"Objects gather the world around them; they are not mere containers of meaning."

"The notion of the social as a fixed realm is the great fiction of sociology."

"We have become prisoners of the nature-culture divide that we ourselves created."

"To be modern is to believe oneself free from all past, but this is a delusion."

"The laboratory is not a place apart from the world; it is deeply entangled with the social."

"Authority does not come from expertise alone; it comes from the ability to make others act."

"Complexity is not a problem to be solved but a condition to be described and navigated."