ABSTRACT
Bruno Latour's double-barrel critiques attracted ire from both camps, as he was found to be too objectivist for the constructivist camp and too relativist for the objectivists. Latour, the founder of new disciplines and forever a foundling in the eyes of the Disciplined. At the risk of producing another tortuous caricature, we will approach Latour as a philosopher of 'togetherness in action' (TIA). TIA, as in, nothing gets done alone by single independent actors. 'Togetherness in action' can refer to acting together, but also to togetherness 'in the making', that is, to togetherness born of action. Thinking with Latour and his offspring theories such as actor–network theory goes beyond mapping who and what acts, or showing that materiality matters and that nothing is pure. The network metaphor allowed Latour to translate semiotic ideas of relationality and actantial configuration beyond the realm of immaterial signs and narratives.
