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Bruno Latour fans will know that the French anthropologist’s long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s game-changing theoretical provocation We Have Never Been Modern<\/a><\/em> was released in its English translation just a few weeks ago. The book is called An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence<\/a><\/em> (and is becoming better known by its acronym “AIME”), and it provides a state-of-the-art summation of Latour’s project of producing an “anthropology of the moderns” — that is, of us.<\/p>\n Most interestingly, it does this as a multi-phase exercise in “interactive metaphysics,” which includes a participatory online web site<\/a> intended to fill in the details and elicit commentary, debate, and refinement.<\/p>\n Hard-core fans will also likely have heard<\/a> about Adam Robbert’s online AIME research group<\/a>, which will be conducting a group reading<\/a> beginning next week. The group currently involving several dozen participants (including myself — so you will be hearing about it here), but it is open to the public.<\/p>\n While I haven’t started reading the book yet, I think it’s safe to predict that AIME<\/em> and everything around is likely to become one of the most important events in nature-culture theorizing for years to come. I invite blog readers to join the discussions — here, at Adam’s group site<\/a>, or on Latour’s own interactive site. <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bruno Latour fans will know that the French anthropologist’s long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s game-changing theoretical provocation We Have Never Been Modern was released in its English translation just a few weeks ago. 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