Bruno Latour

"Reading such a perceptive and deep book, the author who is the subject of the commentary feels like a sailboat architect realising that the hull he has painfully designed has suddenly turned into a real boat through the skills of the skipper at the helm. What until then has been no more than a mere proposition has become an exciting adventure to understand the specificity of legal connectors. Even though the design of the boat plays a role, it's the skipper that gets the cup... A perfect fulfilment of the AIME project." Bruno Latour, Sciences-Po

"From time to time, although much too rarely, comes a book that shatters the very foundations of what we believed. Kyle McGee's 'The Normativity of Networks' is one of those books. Not only does it provide the most extensive and accurate description of Bruno Latour's profound renewal of Western metaphysics available to the contemporary reader, but it does so with the help of the most unexpected of instruments: law. Reformulating Latour's Actor-Network Theory (and beyond), it is then the very role and importance of law in Western metaphysics (and its everyday practice) that is thrown radically into question with this magisterial work, and, with it, the research program of any future investigation within the realm of law. Already an absolute classic - written with class and poise." Laurent de Sutter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

"Reading such a perceptive and deep book, the author who is the subject of the commentary feels like a sailboat architect realising that the hull he has painfully designed has suddenly turned into a real boat through the skills of the skipper at the helm. What until then has been no more than a mere proposition has become an exciting adventure to understand the specificity of legal connectors. Even though the design of the boat plays a role, it's the skipper that gets the cup... A perfect fulfilment of the AIME project." Bruno Latour, Sciences-Po

"From time to time, although much too rarely, comes a book that shatters the very foundations of what we believed. Kyle McGee's 'The Normativity of Networks' is one of those books. Not only does it provide the most extensive and accurate description of Bruno Latour's profound renewal of Western metaphysics available to the contemporary reader, but it does so with the help of the most unexpected of instruments: law. Reformulating Latour's Actor-Network Theory (and beyond), it is then the very role and importance of law in Western metaphysics (and its everyday practice) that is thrown radically into question with this magisterial work, and, with it, the research program of any future investigation within the realm of law. Already an absolute classic - written with class and poise." Laurent de Sutter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel