Actant-rhizome ontology of B. Latour

In the article a detailed analysis of the actant-rhizome ontology of B.Latour is performed. Analytical procedures are implemented on the basis of the problem field of relativistic ontologies of Leibniz and Deleuze, which are considered as conceptual premises of actant-rhizome ontology and which allow to explore its basic concepts in terms of relationships, associations and links. A historical typology of the problem relativistic field registers is based on a retrospective analysis of its modifications. The typology allows to trace the differences in the principles and laws of its construction and to determine the level at which the actant-rhizome ontology is constituted. Three types of registers are identified: ideal, real and physical. The ideal register is referred to the ontology of possible worlds of Leibniz. It is recognized that there are two main principles of its organization. The first one is the principle of pre-established harmony, which sets the ideal system of relations and interactions of the world eventness according to the law of conjunction. The second is the principle of impossibility of infinite set of possible worlds to the only existing real world. The real ontological register is represented by Deleuze's philosophy. The organizing principle of this register is described using the positional structure of the Other. This structure serves as a condition for providing real existence of possible worlds, and launching the principle of simultaneous existence of impossible worlds. The disjunction is recognized as the principle of the world synthesis. A special ontological region, excluding the structure of the Other and defined as a physical register, is allocated inside the real ontology. The processes of the opening of possible worlds, triggering the procedures of assembling and permanent transformations, as well as the processes of the intensification of the disjunctive syntheses, responsible for the linkages of the power circulating materiality, are described in this register. The actant-rhizome ontology of Latour is constituted at this level. Furthermore, it is here where the ontological and conceptual intersection of the philosophical and sociological discourses of Deleuze and Latour are observed, allowing to apply a philosophical conceptual apparatus of Deleuze to analytics of basic concepts of Latour's actant-rhizome ontology. The main concepts analyzed are the following: social, network, the collective assembly, human and non-human actors, plugins. In conclusion, it is noted that the physical register of relativistic ontology, which the actant-rhizome ontology belongs to, allows Latour to think of social as a process of re-establishment of links between elements that are not social, and start the process of intense transformations in the areas of living material objectivity.

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