The proliferation of hybrids

Joan Mirò's Minotaur in the Labyrinth at Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence near Nice

The moderns are allergic to hybrids, things which don't belong completely to one category or another. One of the articles of faith of post-Enlightenment modernity is the separation of nature and culture, of things pertaining to science (necessary, true, real) and t…