three types of causality

"Each of the entities I am dealing with possesses the three types of
causality that [Bloor] keeps so cleanly separated: each of them is
self-referential -- like society in his scheme -- each of them is
causal -- as in what he calls non-social nature -- and yet each of them
underdetermines the next one in the series -- as in his conception of
the gap between sensory data and interpretation. Instead of
distributing his three types of causality according to different
ontological domains (one for non-social nature, one for social nature,
and one for their connection), I attribute each of them to all of the
entities. This is what has allowed me to tackle anew the question of
what society and nature are made of. I claim that this question has
become empirically studiable only since this methodological move has
been taken."

- Bruno Latour, "For David Bloor... and Beyond: A Reply to David
Bloor's 'Anti-Latour'"

the time has come

"Perhaps the moment has come to leave behind the old Leftist obsession
with ways and means to 'subvert' or 'undermine' the order, and to
focus on the opposite question -- on what, following Ernesto Laclau,
we can call the 'ordering of the Order': not how we can undermine the
existing order, but how does an Order emerge out of disorder in the
first place? Which inconsistencies and splittings alow the edifice of
Order to maintain itself?" - Slavoj Žižek,The Indivisible Remainder,
1996