| Title | From Latour to late industrialism |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Authors | Fortun, Kim |
| Journal | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pagination | 309-329 |
| ISSN | 2049-1115 |
| Abstract | I situate Latour’s latest project—An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME)—in the context of late industrialism and query both its conceptual underpinnings and the design of its digital platform. I argue that Latour’s semiotics (and associated conceptions of both networks and ontologies) are functionalist in a way that mimics industrial logic, discounting both the production of hierarchical differentiation within a given system, and the system’s externalizations. The approach thus underestimates the toxicity of its vitalism. |
| URL | https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.1.017 |
| DOI | 10.14318/hau4.1.017 |