Quotes from Randall Styers

while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation." -- Making Magic , p. 13

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined. -- Making Magic , p. 23

With a cloak of naturalized rationalism, scholars can deflect our attention from the power effected in their theory-making. -- Randall Styers, Making Magic , p. 23

Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture. -- Randall Styers, Making Magic , p. 17