{"id":44688,"date":"2019-03-22T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44688"},"modified":"2019-03-22T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:53:06","slug":"bruno-latour-on-politics-in-the-new-climatic-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44688","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Latour on Politics in the New Climatic Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bollier.org\/blog\/bruno-latour-politics-new-climatic-regime\">Bruno Latour on Politics in the New Climatic Regime<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are so many zones of the world descending into chaos and confusion? There is no single reason, of course, but the French scholar of modernity, Bruno Latour, has a compelling overarching theory. In his new book,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruno-latour.fr\/node\/754\">Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(Polity), Latour argues that climate change, by calling into question the once-universal dream of \u201cdevelopment\u201d and globalization, is leaving a huge void in our consciousness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bollier.org\/files\/inline-images\/Screen_Shot_2019-03-20_at_7.07.01_PM.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has resulted in an \u201cepistemological delirium.\u201d As the ordering principle of \u201cthe modern\u201d dissolves into thin air, we don\u2019t know which way is up or how to proceed. Hence the title of the original French version of the book,&nbsp;<em>O\u00f9 atterir? Comment s\u2019orienter en politique<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cWhere to land? How to orient yourself in politics?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humanity no longer has a shared framework of \u201cbecoming modern,\u201d says Latour. It is hard for everyone to believe that globalized markets, \u201cdevelopment,\u201d and consumerism will yield a steady march toward civilization and progress. Corporations have proven themselves to be consummate externalizers of cost and risk. And climate change among other eco-crises suggests that relentless economic growth is simply preposterous &#8212; and grossly mal-distributed in any case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hence our profound disorientation. It\u2019s hard to deal with the slow-motion collapse of a once-universal story of human aspiration.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rich nations, or at least the US, remain mostly in denial about climate change, if only because acknowledging the truth would upend so much. The remaining nation-states of the world, meanwhile, have no clear path in a fractured, divided world for constructing a shared vision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without the unifying normative framework of \u201cdevelopment\u201d and its claims of infinite growth and progress, how can we figure out a new consensus narrative for humanity, one that acknowledges the existential reality that we live on the same, finite planet? How can we find a way to share and co-manage our only habitable space?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Latour on Politics in the New Climatic Regime Why are so many zones of the world descending into chaos and confusion? There is no single reason, of course, but the French scholar of modernity, Bruno Latour, has a compelling overarching theory. In his new book,&nbsp;Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime&nbsp;(Polity), Latour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[24773,6551,370,637],"class_list":["post-44688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-bruno-latour","tag-david-bollier","tag-globalization","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44689,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688\/revisions\/44689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}