element of our everyday surroundings is far more realistic. Currently, phenomena such as “urban farming” or “urban gardening” demonstrate diverse and innovative ways of dealing with the hybrid reality characteristic of dense urban centers, for instance, in the field of vegetable production or fish farming.*
This empirical way of dealing with networks of causal interrelations in everyday life hence reveals that reality cannot be explained by means of scientific categories, such as environment, economy, or society. The evolution of such categories thus has a different background. According to Bruno Latour, the outset is the “convention of modernism” (Latour 2007, 150). Latour describes how the project of modernism at the end of the 19th century consisted of making the world explicable by means of indisputable facts (Latour 2007, 150). In order to create states of knowledge that were as clear as possible, i.e., independent of subjective perception, a delimitation process among the fields of science became necessary. Although this differentiation process enabled the systematic production of “pure” states of knowledge, it simultaneously caused a rapid departure of scientific activity from reality as the subdivision of the world into equations and natural laws gradually cut the ties between science and the outside world (Latour 2000, 10).