In the mode of metamorphosis: ANT and Latour after Latour

This short piece responds to five commentaries to our own suggestions on ‘What Next for Actor Network Theory?’ after Latour's passing. Charting a path through very heterogenous ideas, we attempt to re-scenarise what we consider the wheat of fruitful theoretical questioning and extensions from the chaff of worn-out adversarial gestures around actor-network theory (ANT) in sociology and beyond. Inventing around Latour on a planet in distress, we affirm with our commentators, certainly brings ANT into fruitful dialogues with broader strands of feminist Science and Technology Studies, political ecology, alongside the kinds of more-than-human anthropology that we ourselves brought to the table. At stake, we believe, is the willingness to extend ANT's descriptive capacities in new directions, at the limits of Western social theory's current conceptual preoccupations with Capital and Nature.