So, there exists a form of original utterance that speaks of the present, of definitive presence, of completion, of the fulfilment of time, and which, because it speaks of it in the present, must always be brought forward to compensate for the inevitable backsliding of the instant towards the past …1 1 - Bruno Latour, Rejoicing or the Torments of Religious Speech, trans. Julie Rose (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013), 118.
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