Revolution from between: Latour's Reordering of Things in We Have Never Been Modern

From Latour's point of view, The Order of Things would be tacitly organized around the ratio of modernity less by cursory references to colonization or "cultures without history" than by the glaring absence of "quasi-objects," particularly the products of technology and the "deductive" sciences of non-l iving nature that made colonialism physically possible and set the tempo for international competition over resources. [...]according to Foucault, the dominant arrange- ment of scholarly knowledge has included mathematics, "deductive sciences" of non-living nature, "empirical sciences" including the life sciences and social sciences, and the "human sciences" of representation.