Down to earth : politics in the new climatic regime /
Politics in the new climatic regime
Bruno Latour.
- English edition.
- x, 128 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A hypothesis as political fiction: the explosion of inequalities and the denial of climate change are one and the same phenomenon -- Thanks to America's abandonment of the climate agreement, we now know clearly what war has been declared -- The question of migrations now concerns everyone, offering a new and very wicked universality: finding oneself deprived of ground -- One must take care not to confuse globalization-plus with globalization-minus -- How the globalist ruling classes have decided to abandon all the burdens of solidarity, little by little -- The abandonment of a common world leads to epistemological delirium -- The appearance of a third pole undoes the classical organization of modernity torn between the first two poles, the Local and the Global -- The invention of "Trumpism" makes it possible to identify a fourth attractor, the Out-of-This-World -- In identifying the attractor we can call Terrestrial, we identify a new geopolitical organization -- Why the successes of political ecology have never been commensurate with the stakes -- Why political ecology has had so much trouble breaking away from the Right/Left opposition -- How to ensure the relay between social struggles and ecological struggles -- The class struggle becomes a struggle among geosocial positions -- The detour by way of history makes it possible to understand how a certain notion of "nature" has immobilized political positions -- We must succeed in breaking the spell of "nature" as it has been pinned down by the modern vision of the Left/Right opposition -- A world composed of objects does not have the same type of resistance as a world composed of agents -- The sciences of the Critical Zone do not have the same political functions as those of the other natural sciences -- The contradiction between the system of production and the system of engendering is heating up -- A new attempt at describing dwelling places-France's ledgers of complaints as a possible model -- A personal defense of the Old Continent. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.