Abstract
”We Have Never been Modern” is a major theoretical achievement both in science and technology studies (STS) and Actor-Network theory (ANT). By examining the mediation work of the hybrids, Bruno Latour proposes variable ontologies, parliament of things, and nonmodernity in order to tackle the modernist dualism of subject and object.This proposition is criticized for its argument style, theoretical position, and most importantly its nonhuman political implication. This paper is not another overall evaluation of its nonhuman politics. It introduces STS' contribution in exploring the social politics of technoscientific practices and specifies ANT's insights into general symmetrical investigation, variable ontologies, and heterogeneous actor of ontological politics. Based on the perspective of such an ontological politics, this paper also discusses the strategy of 'STS inside' to think with and use such an ontological perspective in our local context.