Latour, Bruno, After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis
2022; University of Santo Tomas; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.25138/16.1.br1
ISSN1908-7330
Autores Resumoublished originally in French as Où suis-je?Leçons du confinement à l'usage des terrestres, After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis is Bruno Latour's latest translated book which, as the English title suggests, provides musings on the experience of metamorphosis during the pandemic, suggesting our own metamorphosis after an experience of confinement.Both French and English publications came in the same year, however, if one juxtaposes this book with other works on the pandemic such as Žižek's Pandemic!COVID-19 Shakes the World and PANDEMIC! 2 Chronicles of Time Lost or, rather disappointing, Ben Bramble's Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of COVID-19, 2 one would notice what makes Latour's work of particular interest.Žižek offers a philosophic reflection of the current situation by raising the question "What is wrong with our system that we were caught unprepared by the catastrophe despite scientists warning us about it for years?" while Bramble raises this query in a more simplistic sense of "what to do, how to feel, and who to be." 3 Latour writes from a different perspective evident in the French title, Where am I?, and offers a "philosophical fable" 4 in 14 chapters on the theme of his writings on Gaia politics and the Critical Zone but from the standpoint of confinement.The English title of this book is a play on a metamorphosis ideally realized after lockdown, signifying two things:(1) a direct reference to Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and (2) an inquiry into our own conversion during the lockdown.Whereas there was a flurry in revisiting Camus or Foucault during the pandemic, Latour provides a rereading of Kafka's novel to challenge our normative assumptions of where we are and how we got here; as Latour wishes to provide a different reading 1 Trans.by
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