The People of Ideas: What Latour does to Philosophy.

I would like to try here to indicate a possible line of inheritance, to locate a shock in the particular space of philosophy and to ask what Latour does to philosophy. Thus, what Latour does to philosophy, by forcing it to present itself as an "ontology" that is always regional and situated, is to open it up to a new field of exploration, at once speculative and political, that of the pharmacological power of our ideas, a power of possibilities and devastations. [Extracted from the article]