• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Science Studies and the Metamorphic Multiple Earth: Bruno Latour’s Risky Diplomacy
  • Beteiligte: de Freitas, Elizabeth
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2020
  • Erschienen in: Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 20 (2020) 3, Seite 203-212
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/1532708619880220
  • ISSN: 1532-7086; 1552-356X
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  • Beschreibung: This essay focuses on Bruno Latour’s recent attempts to study the metamorphic zone of terrestrial life, within the current climate crisis and environmental “cosmocolossus.” I explore his proposal for a risky diplomacy in the Anthropocene “end times,” as a way of dealing with the increasingly tense relations between polarized and weaponized perspectives. I show how his work continues to seek a form of scientific practice that involves the invention of equipment (apparatus) that make perceptible (principally to humans) the existence of nonhuman agencies, thereby expanding the opportunities for alliances and a pluralist ecology, and ultimately assembling another more-than-human political body. I also discuss critiques and concerns regarding the specifics of this proposal.