ABSTRACT
Decades ago Bruno Latour (1993) argued ‘we have never been modern.’ In making such a claim he sought to ‘sort out the premoderns, the moderns, and even the postmoderns in order to distinguish between their durable characteristics and their lethal ones’ (p. 12). For Latour all three ways of being existed simultaneously—presenting sensibilities durable and lethal to we the living and the dead. Many have already responded to iterations of the question proposing things that have come after postmodernism: new materialism (Coole & Frost, 2010), post-humanism (Braidotti, 2006), the Anthropocene (Davies, 2016), the chthulucene (Haraway, 2016), and so on to grapple with the changing world and its needs.
