Where to land?
huile sur toile, 116x 89 cm
“Where to Land?” is the title of an essay by Bruno Latour in which he proposes, in response to the deadlocks and anxieties of the contemporary world caused
by climate disruption, to rethink politics and its project by integrating all the “agents” of life on Earth through the notion of “Terrestrials.” Workers, traders,
or homemakers over fifty, just like viruses, bacteria, oceans, bees, or forests, are all terrestrials. For modern humans, who dream of being “masters and possessors
of nature,” urgently discover that what they considered nature—inert and manipulable at will—is, in reality, a collective of agents that generate one another,
reacting to their blind actions in a domino effect, to the point of questioning their own survival. Finding a ground to land on, a forest to breathe (since
air is also a terrestrial), a soil for a world open to diversity and shared with the diversity of Terrestrials without which we dig our own grave. There is
no mysticism in this, but real politics. “One must not confuse the return of the Earth with the ‘return to the land’ of sinister memory”… One must read
Latour.