ABSTRACT
In the article I am concerned with the way in which criminology as part of a modernist episteme has been largely preoccupied with concepts that depend upon the abiliry to preserve a number of binary divisions in its conceptions of the world. These concern principally the polarities of science and society, nature and culture and·beings and things.! In fact, we shall see that these polarities depend upon each other; so that once one polarity is questioned, they all become unclear; moreover, criminology's traditional bifurcatory paradigms are peculiarly unsuited to the analysis of the complex technosocial characteristics of criminological phenomena.
