innovator

is one who makes and re-makes both nature and society, showing that there is a history of the 'things in themselves' such that our careful distinctions between what has been revealed, discovered, or fabricated is turned into a shambles.

In modifying our ideas the innovator is, in Latour's terminology, making and re-making both nature and society. As he put it: That there is a history of the 'things in themselves' seems absurd only to those who want to fix us forever into the boring confrontation between a subject (or a society) and an object (or a nature). Meanwhile, innovators are constantly crossing the boundaries between nature and society, and turning our careful distinction between what has been revealed, what has been discovered. . . and what has been fabricated into a shambles. (Latour, 1988, p. 262) (in BLoor 1999: 86)

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innovator