ABSTRACT

Finally, we are concerned about the easy call for entanglements and even intimacy. For Latour (2012), compositionism “describes our ever-increasing degree of intimacy with the new natures we are constantly creating.” The sin, he says, “is not to wish to have dominion over Nature, but to believe that this dominion means emancipation and not attachment.” As Latour is suggesting, intimacy is not free of mastery. We are with him: Domination occurs through attachment. But for us, domination should be resisted. The domination of nature and other-than-humans by particular human groups is ruinous. Acknowledging entanglement is not enough to shift us away from further animal death and exploitation.