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Farewell to the French Philosopher Bruno Latour

Ones and Tooze

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Latour and the Climate Movement

In his final books, Latour wrote about the idea of a singular relationship that man in nature would have with Gaia. I'm curious whether this reveals a strain in Latour's thinking that's kind of fatalistic and dooms almost ecological politics in a certain way. What he didn't think we could avoid was affecting the world by avoiding interacting with it. He wanted us to understand it as fully alive, like we're fully alive. His anxiety is that as it were Gaia will be sufficiently provoked to toss us back in fury.

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