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Bezig met laden... Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (2015)door Bruno Latour
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   HelioKonishi | Apr 21, 2022 |  Over the course of the book Latour discusses the history of both science and religion, the limitations to seeing the world as full of deanimated "things", why we need apocalypse but not the Apocalypse and the necessity for science to get political. His argumentation is rigorous and provocative. The writing is engaging, although some might find the tone of the book distracting. At times, the tone borders on flippancy and imprecision (the metaphor of "madness" in the introduction is, for instance, pretty ill considered). There are places, too, where more conceptual clarity would have been welcome. That said, these are minor quibbles and across the book's three hundred plus pages there is more than enough sustenance, new ideas and radical thinking to make it essential reading for anyone interested in what the consequences of climate change might be for the humanities. (  ) shemthepenman | Dec 4, 2020 | So many books about climate change feel that they need to trade entirely upon facts: of course, facts are important but, as the rise of President Trump in the USA shows, facts can be overrated. Passion counts for far more than a host of percentages. Bruno Latour demonstrates both an understanding of the facts AND the ability to wear his heart upon his sleeve. There are no holds barred in this work. Do not be fooled by the use of 'Gaia' in the title; this is not a hippy-dippy book. Just because there is passion, there is certainly no lack of hard fact. The book is based upon eight lectures and there is a slight air of being lectured but, when the lecturer is as knowledgeable as this, I am not complaining. We must get away from this idea that any fact concerning climate change is challengeable. A fact is a fact and, when 97% scientists accept something, it should not be used as a 50:50 statement with as much time given to the skeptic's view. Read this book! (  ) the.ken.petersen | Jan 13, 2018 |
We cannot hide from the fact that there is a fundamental misunderstanding about Gaia. We think we are using the name of this mythological figure to designate the quite common time-honored idea that the Earth is a living organism. Lovelock is renowned, they say, simply because he recast in cybernetic language the ancient idea that the Earth is finely tuned. The words “regulation” and “feedback” replace the antique idea of “natural balance” or even providence. Now, the scientific hypothesis developed by Lovelock in the 1960s, and then a few years later in collaboration with another equally controversial researcher, Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), has, in my opinion, nothing to do with any natural “balance” or “harmony.” “Gaia” — since this is the name he gave to this hypothesis — is neither a big thermostat nor a superorganism, a sort of successor to the Mother Earth (or the stepmother) who features in so many mythologies. Facing up to her, as I say in Facing Gaia, means accepting another way of defining living things in their relations to the Earth, which is quite foreign to the way a superior and predetermined natural order is invoked.
The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world. The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. Some call it the Anthropocene, but it is best described as a new climatic regime. And a new regime it certainly is, since the many unexpected connections between human activity and the natural world oblige every one of us to reopen the earlier notions of nature and redistribute what had been packed inside. So the question now arises: what will replace the old ways of looking at nature? This book explores a potential candidate proposed by James Lovelock when he chose the name 'Gaia' for the fragile, complex system through which living phenomena modify the Earth. The fact that he was immediately misunderstood proves simply that his readers have tried to fit this new notion into an older frame, transforming Gaia into a single organism, a kind of giant thermostat, some sort of New Age goddess, or even divine Providence. In this series of lectures on 'natural religion,' Bruno Latour argues that the complex and ambiguous figure of Gaia offers, on the contrary, an ideal way to disentangle the ethical, political, theological, and scientific aspects of the now obsolete notion of nature. He lays the groundwork for a future collaboration among scientists, theologians, activists, and artists as they, and we, begin to adjust to the new climatic regime. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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