polity
First published in French as Où atterir? Comment s’orienter en politique © Éditions La Découverte, Paris, 2017
This English edition copyright © Bruno Latour, 2018
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3059-5
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Names: Latour, Bruno, author.
Title: Down to earth : politics in the new climatic regime / Bruno Latour.
Other titles: O?u atterrir? English
Description: English edition. | Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009277 (print) | LCCN 2018025558 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509530595 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509530564 | ISBN 9781509530571 (pb)
Subjects: LCSH: Globalization--Political aspects. | Climatic changes--Political aspects. | Equality.
Classification: LCC JZ1318 (ebook) | LCC JZ1318 .L38413 2018 (print) | DDC 320.58--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018009277
Cover illustration: Illustration originale créée par duofluo – design graphique pour l’exposition « Globes. Architecture et sciences explorent le monde » présentée à la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine du 10 novembre 2017 au 26 mars 2018, Paris.
— Droite: Coupe sur le Géorama au carré Ledoyen du jardin des Champs-Élysées. Dessin paru dans « L’Illustration », 1846.
— Gauche: Brevet d’invention et de perfectionnement de 10 ans déposé le 03.02.1825 par Charles-François-Paul Delanglard pour une machine appelée géorama, propre à l’étude de la géographie. Coupe sur le Géorama © Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) / 1 BA1647_8
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A first version of this text benefited from commentary, often quite detailed, offered by Alexandra Arènes (to whom I owe the figures), Pierre Charbonnier, Deborah Danowski, Gérard de Vries, Maylis Dupont, Jean-Michel Frodon, François Gemenne, Jacques Grinevald, Émilie Hache, Graham Harman, Chantal Latour, Anne Le Strat, Baptiste Morizot, Dominique Pestre, Nikolaj Schultz, Clara Soudan, and Isabelle Stengers. I have tried to take all their comments into account.
Certain sections of this text are reproduced in “L’Europe seule. Seule l’Europe,” in Benoît Hamon, Yannick Jadot, and Michel Wieworka, eds., La politique est à nous (Paris: Robert Laffont, 2017), pp. 269–76, and in “L’Europe refuge,” in Heinrich Geiselberger, ed., The Great Regression (Cambridge: Polity, 2017), pp. 78–87, as well as in journal articles: “Propositions pour recaler nos GPS politiques,” Libération, February 3, 2016, and “Comment ne pas se tromper sur Trump,” Le Monde, December 13, 2016.
Some of my research was carried out thanks to the project “Politiques de la terre à l’époque de l’anthropocène,” USPP-Sciences Po.
We’ve read enough books. Jared Kushner1