{"product_id":"after-lockdown-a-metamorphosis-paperback-softback-9781509550029","title":"After Lockdown; A Metamorphosis (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509550029","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfter Lockdown\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Metamorphosis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBruno Latour (Author), Julie Rose (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509550029, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 24 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.204 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"astonishing meditation\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAfter Lockdown\u003c\/i\u003e, the French philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour takes a more radical stance. With the current pandemic we experience a dress-rehearsal for what climate change has in store, he thinks. So, we'd better learn to re-orient ourselves and take stock of our lives. For that, we need a new compass, an entirely different cosmology, he claims – different, that is, from the metaphysics which provides the basic conceptual framework of most modern thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Montreal Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAfter Lockdown: A Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruno Latour explores how the experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to better understand our connections with other living beings, in ways that might be conducive to confronting our climate crisis. This book will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore the philosophical meanings of lockdowns, Gaia theories and climate politics.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"a novel and important contribution\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Ecohumanism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Readers new to Latour will find this book intriguing and relevant, an eminently useful introduction to his approach to social science… [a] provocative and beautiful book…\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many 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 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, together with all other living beings, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this sequel to his bestselling book \u003ci\u003eDown to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. One way of becoming a termite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Locked-down in a space that's still pretty vast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Earth' is a proper noun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Earth' is feminine, 'Universe' is masculine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. A whole cascade of engendering troubles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Here below' – except there is no up above\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Letting the economy bob to the surface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Describing the territory, only, the right way round\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The unfreezing of the landscape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Multiplying the number of mortal bodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. The return of ethnogeneses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Some pretty strange battles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Scattering in all directions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. 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