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Protective Measures

2021; Duke University Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/17432197-8797459

1751-7435

Bruno Latour, Stephen Muecke,

Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

Research Article| March 01 2021 Protective Measures: An Exercise Bruno Latour; Bruno Latour Bruno Latour is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris and has published extensively in the domain of science studies and more generally on the anthropology of modernism. His books include We Have Never Been Modern (1991), Iconoclash (2002), Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (2004), Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy (2005), Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (2007), On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods (2010), An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2013), Facing Gaia (2017), and Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Stephen Muecke Stephen Muecke Introduced and translated by Stephen Muecke is professor of creative writing in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Recent books are Latour and the Humanities (coedited with Rita Felski, 2020) and The Children's Country: Creation of a Goolarabooloo Future in North-West Australia (coauthored with Paddy Roe, 2020). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 11–16. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797459 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Bruno Latour, Stephen Muecke; Protective Measures: An Exercise. Cultural Politics 1 March 2021; 17 (1): 11–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797459 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search In late March 2020 Bruno Latour asked me to translate this piece, at the same time as letting me know that he was in hospital with COVID-19. This was distressing news, but he pulled through and hasn't paused to reflect on the experience in writing, as far as I know, keeping busy with the exhibition and book, Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, which was published later in the year with MIT Press.This article, for which the literal translation of the title is "What Protective Measures Can You Think of So We Don't Go Back to the Precrisis Production Model?" (Latour 2020d), has been quite successful; twelve other translations listed on Latour's site is a good indication.1 Such success may be attributable to the practical way that it responds to the acute COVID-19 crisis,... Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press2021 Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.