Additionally, if we do try to divide "Nature" from "Society" in a neat and tidy way, then the transcendence that traditionally characterizes the supernatural simply gets transposed into Nature itself.  Nature becomes that which forever "transcends" any of our feeble attempts to represent it.  "When," Latour asks, "will we finally be able to secularize nonhumnas by ceasing to objectify them?" (PN 51).  When will we stop taking objects as masks for noumenal things in themselves?  Latour's response to this version of "natural" tanscendence is identical to his response to claims of "supernatural" transcendence: he doesn't deny transcendence, he affirms it while multiplying it.  he flattens and secularizes it by rendering it ubiquitous.


Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace, pgs. 64-65.