Alexis Baer                                                                                       about 150 words

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Student, INTD: Writing Science

“We Have Never Been Modern”
by Alexis Baer

Bruno Latour begins his essay by focusing on a newspaper article that recognizes multiple negative events that begin to rapidly occur. Such topics mentioned include flawed dualisms, religion, culture, technology, law, and the economy in order to further support his argument of separation throughout the writing. Latour’s main points he tries to get across consists of his modernization views and the hybrid of combining nature, that is based off scientific studies, and society together. Modernism is the altering of traditions to form a new way of society using new ideas and thoughts. As Latour explains it; he believes that modernism is the challenging divide between translation and purification. Individuals must consider these different perspectives of such topics as well as forming and changing their own opinions. Although Bruno Latour does give a valid argument, his statements do not quite connect or resemble my object.