Making Magic Quotes

“[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”
― Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

“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”
― Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

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

-- Making Magic, p. 23”
― Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

“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”
― Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World