Quotes About Actants

we are much better at admitting that humans infect nature than we are at admitting that nonhumanity infects culture, for the latter entails the blasphemous idea that nonhumans—trash, bacteria, stem cells, food, metal, technologies, weather—are actants more than objects. Latour

Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces