‘Scientific Objects’
Bruno Latour observes, “ Look around you: scientific objects are circulating simultaneously as subjects objects and discourse. Networks are full of Being. As for machines, they are laden with subjects and collectives. How could a being lose its difference, its incompleteness, its mark, its trace of Being? This is never in anyone's power; otherwise we should have to imagine that we have truly been modern, we should be taken in by the upper half of the modern Constitution.” Latour’s reflection suggests that ‘scientific objects’ are ubiquitous in modernism to the degree that they profoundly delineate ‘being.’ Modernism ratifies science as a variant of reality.
‘Quasi-Objects’
The ‘Quasi-objects’ which designate hybridity are all-pervading: “ The proliferation of quasi-objects was thus greeted by three different strategies: first, the ever-increasing separation between the pole of Nature - things-in-themselves - and that of Society or the subject - people-among-themselves; second, the autonomization of language or meaning; finally, the deconstruction of Western metaphysics.” Resources have been dominantly been averted to the construction of quasi-objects that are downright amalgams. The explosion of the ‘quasi-objects’ renders Modernism a champion of hybridity.
