Abstract

This article examines the concept of “hybridity” as it is utilized in Homi Bhabha’s “The Location of Culture,” and Bruno Latour’s “We Have Never Been Modern.” The two authors used the concept of hybridity to explore the boundaries of human cultures, and also to express how these boundaries negotiate material and non-material agencies which form active sites of intersection that support and create identities. The article adopts an interpretative, comparative, and interdisciplinary framework, as a form of meta-textual critiquing of the two material texts. While the article argues that Latour and Bhabha’s conceptual expositions have many intersectional profundity and limitations, the proposition of the concept of hybridity by the authors provide a deep-seated framework for the interaction of the social and cultural processes.