After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both
states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the
crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as
it was before the pandemic’. But there is another way to learn the
lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be
able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health
crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis - that
brought about by the New Climate Regime. Learning to live in
lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for
the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we -
inhabitants of the earth - live, what kind of place ‘earth’ is and
how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the
years to come. We might finally be able to explore the land in which
we live, together with all other living beings, begin to understand
the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and
discover what kind of freedom is possible - a freedom differently
situated and differently understood.
In this sequel to his bestselling book _Down to Earth_, Bruno Latour
provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives,
outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which
we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which
we are living.
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9781509550036
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2021
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Engelsk
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