Book review: Down to Earth, by Bruno Latour

When I rebranded the blog a couple of years ago, I thought long and hard about different names and settled eventually on Earthbound. For me it reflects the fact that we are grounded where are and have to learn to live as if we mean to stay. It also hints at the earth as a destination. As if modern life, with its infinite growth and its plastic, were a fantasy detour and we needed to come back to earth.

The French philosopher Bruno Latour has also used the idea of being earthbound, and so ...