"We need Latour, therefore, not because we need philosophy, but because we need a philosophy like the one he practiced: an empirical philosophy, that is, concerned with what happens in the world. In a world that actually exists, of perfect triangles and imaginary numbers, but also of infants, traffic lights, and ticks." 

Why do we need Bruno Latour? At a time when ecological challenges seem to call into question the very existence of the future, we need to imagine a hopeful horizon and create a shared world in which the relationships between humans and non-humans are otherwise.  

Bruno Latour dedicated much of his life to studying the nature of our relationships with non-human collectives and how these, despite what we insisted on believing, had a significant impact on our lives. A scholar of science and passionate about politics, he devoted the last years of his life to confronting the great threat we face: the emergence of Gaia. The appearance of a vast non-human agent that responds to our aggression, yet disregards our existence. Latour develops an analysis of the current Climate Regime, beginning with a critique of Modernity and culminating in the proposal of a new way of relating to the world, which he calls... terrestrial.  

A tireless writer, lecturer, actor, exhibition curator, teacher… Latour's many facets make it impossible to capture him in a single text, but this book you hold in your hands attempts to do just that. Juan Manuel Zaragoza immerses us in his work and presents the thinking of this irreverent, rebellious, and highly original author who has so much to tell us in our task of building a better tomorrow.  

Juan Manuel Zaragoza He is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia. In 2013, he received a Marie Curie fellowship for a project reconstructing the emotional lives of patients and caregivers in the United Kingdom and Spain through material culture, physical spaces, and cultural representations. Since 2018, he has developed a second line of research on the philosophical study of emotions. He is also the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Thoughts outside the box and has curated two exhibitions in London as part of the collective 15 Curators (2014).