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Author Latour, Bruno, author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021]
©2021

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  304.2 LATOUR    Check Shelf
Description vii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-148).
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.
Language Translated from French.
Subject Human ecology.
Social ecology.
Social change.
Social isolation.
Resocialization.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Social isolation. (OCoLC)fst01122596
Social ecology. (OCoLC)fst01122434
Resocialization. (OCoLC)fst01095600
Climatic changes -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864257
Climatic changes -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864268
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) (OCoLC)fst02024716
Added Author Rose, Julie, 1952- translator.
Added Title Où suis-je ? : leçons du confinement à l'usage des terrestres English
Other Form: ebook version : 9781509550036
ISBN 1509550011 (hardcover)
9781509550012 (hardcover)
150955002X (paperback)
9781509550029 (paperback)
9781509550036 (ePub ebook)
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