After lockdown : a metamorphosis / Bruno Latour, translated by Julie Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latour, Bruno, author.

Contributor:

Rose, Julie, 1952- translator.

Standardized Title:

Où suis-je ? : leçons du confinement à l'usage des terrestres English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Social ecology.

Social change.

Social isolation.

Resocialization.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Political aspects.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Social aspects.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from French.

Summary:

After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and the lockdowns, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, 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 the 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, 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 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. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. One way of becoming a termite

2. Locked-down in a space that's still pretty vast

3. `Earth' is a proper noun

4. `Earth' is feminine

`Universe' is masculine

5. A whole cascade of engendering troubles

6. `Here below'

except there is no up above

7. Letting the economy bob to the surface

8. Describing a territory

only, the right way round

9. The unfreezing of the landscape

10. Mortal bodies are piling up

11. The return of ethnogeneses

12. Some pretty strange battles

13. Scattering in all directions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

150955002X

9781509550029

1509550011

9781509550012

OCLC:

1240494203

Publisher Number:

99989249243