Bruno Latour, professeur associé au médialab de Sciences Po, est notamment l’auteur de Face à Gaïa. Huit conférences sur le Nouveau Régime climatique (2015) et de Où atterrir ? Comment s’orienter en politique (2017).
We have entered a new era, the Anthropocene Age, in which nothing that humanity has done or thought over thousands of years can be of any help to us. From now on the Earth will no longer allow humans to use it as a stage for its social and political battles. It intervenes, reacts to our every act and is even taking over the leading role!
Nature is no longer an impassive backdrop. The party is over, for the Earth has stopped taking a beating and is now hitting back more and more violently.
Can we continue with politics as usual as if nothing has changed, as if everything were not collapsing around us?
In this short political text, Bruno Latour presents new, truly materialistic points of reference for those who want to escape from the ruins of our old ways of thinking.
Bruno Latour is a philosopher and sociologist of science at Sciences-Po Paris. He has written numerous books and articles on the anthropology of the modern world. He published Face à Gaïa. Huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatique with éditions La Découverte in 2015 (Facing Gaia, Polity Press, 2017).