An attempt at aWritten as an essay, An Attempt at a Compositionist Manifesto points toneeding a manifesto in form of genre and contemporaneity. Using The Communist Manifesto as a model, Latour constructs a manifesto using the different meanings of the word compose in order to think about a new world: one that is composed and decomposed into heterogeneous elements. For the author, the manifesto is the worlds composition that we need to imagine.