...The pullulating of living societies whose intertwining forms the texture of the world is not chaotic but ends up by creating interferences, rhythms, and amplifications, on condition that one agrees to discern three stages in this proliferation: the repetition of a first difference, the opposition created by the repetition, and, finally, the adaptation making it possible for it to temporarily get out of these oppositions thanks to new differentiations.

Latour, Bruno and Lépinay, Vincent Antonin: The Science of Passionate Interests: An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s Economic Anthropology (2009)

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