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You're listening to Partial Examined Life episode 230.

Part 2 we've been talking about Bruno Latour as we have never been modern.

Then it was just saying that actually, despite appearances,

the tour is not a social constructionist.

I guess I see what he's doing maybe in your talk,

a blinda of him seeing what we would call scientific facts as resistant as still being some sort of social ontology in the phenomenologist sense.

Right? The phenomenologist did not say because I'm doing phenomenology that everything is just flowing from my consciousness that I,

it's my transcendental ego that's creating all this.

No, when you're phenomenologist, you specifically put that aside.

So it's just this is the world that we live in.

And some of the facts that we believe in have an obvious source in our ideology.

And the way to change them would be to convince people to think different things.

And some of these facts are resistant, but still it seems more a matter of degree than a matter of fundamental kind.

Because if it was a matter of fundamental kind, then you couldn't have hybrids, right?

What is it to have something that is partially natural, but partially social in that resistance terms?

Well, it just it resists less.

We should think about this in concrete terms.

Could the concept of a quark to use the famous example?

Could that be understood in some different ways or some hypothetical world with different social arrangements that would lead to a different outcome?

For that particular concept at this stage of inquiry, you know, you can think of the ideal of inquiry.

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