{"id":2610,"date":"2012-02-06T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T20:29:41","slug":"prince-of-networks-reality-as-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/prince-of-networks-reality-as-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince of Networks: reality as resistance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by this perfect example.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For Latour, two atoms in collision are immanent even if no human ever sees them, since both expend themselves fully in the labour of creating networks with other actants. \u2018Since whatever resists is real, there can be no \u201csymbolic\u201d to add to the \u201creal\u201d [&#8230;]. I am prepared to accept that fish may be gods, stars, or food, that fish may make me ill and play different roles in origin myths [&#8230;]. Those who wish to separate the \u201csymbolic\u201d fish from its \u201creal\u201d counterpart should themselves be separated and confined\u2019 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Pasteurization of France<\/span>, p. 188). What is shared in common by marine biologists, the fishing industry, and tribal elders telling myths about icthyian deities is this: none of them really knows what a fish is. All must negotiate with the fish\u2019s reality, remaining alert to its hideouts, migrational patterns, and sacral or nutritional properties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Graham Harman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCUQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.re-press.org%2Fbook-files%2FOA_Version_780980544060_Prince_of_Networks.pdf&amp;ei=NeMvT8OsB5S40gGwobSQCw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHoaQy1rMD-BJA21BsVahiUrexNJw&amp;sig2=5Lvfp4ZEVJudmtQJwP6_Cw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prince of Networks<\/span><\/a> p26<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by this perfect example. &#8220;For Latour, two atoms in collision are immanent even if no human ever sees them, since both expend themselves fully in the labour of creating networks with other actants. \u2018Since whatever resists is real, there can be no \u201csymbolic\u201d to add to the \u201creal\u201d [&#8230;]. I am prepared &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/prince-of-networks-reality-as-resistance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prince of Networks: reality as resistance.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}