ABSTRACT
Epistemocritics observe that through the process of circulation of knowledge, our representations inform both science and literature in comparable, yet different, ways. The aim of epistemocriticism is not to study nature itself, but the different kinds of knowledge about nature, which are not first-hand knowledge but have been constituted through a double process of cultural and textual formation. Nature can only be grasped through a whole system of symbolic forms, practices, modes of production, perception and action, which turn it into a social space, itself interpreted, transformed, shaped and preserved by technology, knowledge systems, rituals and social rules generating cultural values. In a sense, fictions of the posthuman merely push modern thought – which considers that humanity only exists as radically distinct from nature – to its extreme consequences. The myth of a culture/nature divide should then be exploded, and we should finally recognize the interweaving of nature and culture, which has always framed and made our actions possible.
