2 November

Bruno Latour has been attacked for 3 decades for making this point. To many he was 'undermining' science. Which shows that the 'modern' world is this same de-animation. That was what has driven the rush to fantasy in our times; the wrong sort of re-animation I think, leaving the world de-animated but injecting a bit of spirit or New Age 'metaphysics' into that de-animated world. "We risk only having respect for things insofar as they resemble human experience and characteristics,” writes Anna Grear, among the best analysts of this movement. “The law [instead] needs to develop a new framework in which the human is entangled and thrown in the midst of a lively materiality – rather than assumed to be the masterful, knowing centre.”