Bruno Latour & William Gibson

The Neverness of Modernity: A Symmetrical Analysis of Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern and William Gibson's Neuromancer

by Ethan Astor

"Excellent food, malevolent ambience."
From My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner

"Watch out for worlds behind you."
From Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground

Special thanks to Dr. T. Hugh Crawford and Dr. Alan Baragona for their guidance and for their patience, which is far beyond that of mortal men.

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Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

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