Alex reviewed Down to Earth by Bruno Latour
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5 stars
This book had me pull out a pen to make marginalia to an extent I haven't since college. I'm desperate to find some folks in my community who have read this book. For a book called "Down to Earth," I could use some help bringing the thinking in the book down to earth. Latour thinks of this essay as a hypothesis that remains to be proven. And I get that. But I would love to have a posse in helping me hold up his schema to the light and looking to make more of it concrete. I did love this book though. And I expect that I'll be reading the news from the roost that he's provided.
If you've come to the realization that our current politics aren't adept at confronting the challenges posed by global warming, this is the book for you. It's about a theoretical realignment towards the …
This book had me pull out a pen to make marginalia to an extent I haven't since college. I'm desperate to find some folks in my community who have read this book. For a book called "Down to Earth," I could use some help bringing the thinking in the book down to earth. Latour thinks of this essay as a hypothesis that remains to be proven. And I get that. But I would love to have a posse in helping me hold up his schema to the light and looking to make more of it concrete. I did love this book though. And I expect that I'll be reading the news from the roost that he's provided.
If you've come to the realization that our current politics aren't adept at confronting the challenges posed by global warming, this is the book for you. It's about a theoretical realignment towards the "Terrestrial" from the more globalist outlook of modernism that informed our politics during the 20th century. It's exciting stuff and I think I can see the vague outlines of what he's talking about on the ground. But please help!
I'll definitely be re-reading this and probably scoffing at the copious notes that I wrote in the margins.