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“Counter a metaphysical machine with a bigger metaphysical machine.” Does An Inquiry into Modes of Existence have a system?

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“Counter a metaphysical machine with a bigger metaphysical machine.” Does An Inquiry into Modes of Existence have a system? application/pdf icon
2015

English version by Stephen Muecke of a paper to be published in French in Les Temps Modernes

Original Article

À métaphysique, métaphysique et demie. L’Enquête sur les modes d’existence forme-t-elle un système?

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« À métaphysique, métaphysique et demie. L’Enquête sur les modes d’existence forme-t-elle un système ? » in « La philosophie française a-t-elle l’esprit de système ? ».
In Les Temps Modernes, Janvier-Mars 682, pp. 72-85, 2015

Abstract

Carolina Marinda — Since, in your book on the modes of existence (AIME), you invented a character, an anthropologist carrying out, in a way, your research work for you, I hope you will agree to an interrogation by a genuine anthropologist who is having real trouble doing her own research according to your methodological principles!
Bruno Latour — A refusal would be quite out of place. Especially as the project aims to do something that is as unusual in philosophy as it is in anthropology, to do successful collective research.

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