The Proliferation of Hybrids-Retying the Gordian Knot-The Crisis of the Critical Stance -1989: The Year of Miracles -What Does It Mean To Be A Modern? -The Modern Constitution -Boyle and His Objects-Hobbes and His Subjects -The Mediation of the Laboratory-The Testimony of Nonhumans -The Double Artifact of the Laboratory and the Leviathan -Scientific Representation and Political Representation-The Constitutional Guarantees of the Modern -The Fourth Guarantee: The Crossed-out God-The Power of the Modern Critique -The Invincibility of the Moderns -What the Constitution Clarifies and What It Obscures -The End of Denunciation -We Have Never Been Modern