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Agrarian anxieties
By Steven Stoll
Steven Stoll is an associate professor of history at Fordham University and is writing a book about agrarian societies in the Western Hemisphere. His last article for Harper’s Magazine, “Toward a Second Haitian Revolution,” appeared in the April 2010 issue.
While the moderns insure themselves by not thinking at all about the consequences of their innovations for the social order, the premoderns. . . dwell endlessly and obsessively on those connections between nature and culture. To put it crudely: those who think the most about hybrids circumscribe them as much as possible, whereas those who choose to ignore them . . . develop them to the utmost.
—Bruno Latour,
We Have Never Been Modern
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