Objectivity and subjectivity are not opposite; they grow together in an irrevocable way. The challenge for our philosophy, social theory and morality is to invent political institutions that might absorb so much history, this enormous spiral movement, this destiny, this fate… At least I hope I have persuaded you that if our challenge were to be attended it wouldn’t be considering artefacts as things. They deserve something better. They deserve to be located in our intellectual culture as social actors in their own right. Do they mediate our actions? No, they are us (Latour, 1998b: 299-300; our translation).

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