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... the methodological questions at the heart of that controversy are still very much alive as the protean field of Chinese studies continues reinventing itself in relation to theory. A still deeper reason is to rethink, via Bruno Latour, the status of fiction in the age of posttruth and fake news—a task incumbent upon...

... the identitarian assumptions that are politically manageable by nation-states and economically valorizable by capital” (5). Underlying the collection is an enduring faith in the power of critique, seemingly unscathed by insinuations that it might have, as Bruno Latour would have it, “run out of steam...

..., as I explain later, smog modernity is a fitting term in that it not only highlights the brutal reality of a manufactured sky over the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America but also pinpoints an inconvenient paradox lying directly at the center of modernity itself: Bruno Latour's assertion...

... . Krstic, Igor . Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2016 . Latour, Bruno , and Emilie Hermant . “ Paris: Invisible City .” http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/343.html (accessed May 23 , 2020 ). Lefebvre, Henri...

... understanding of the world. Bruno Latour argues that modernity is plagued with a problem of understanding. In We Have Never Been Modern he argues that our so-called modern ways of knowing the world are incongruous with reality: “Our intellectual life is out of kilter. Epistemology, the social sciences...

... people to be completely separated from the filth and misery of the “primitive” and “developing” poor people, even though most of the wealthy fail to realize that. Just as Bruno Latour puts it, what circles the planet is “not only Magellan's ship, but also our refuse, our toxic wastes”; the commodity...