Reversing the image of the world

  • Publish On 24 February 2021
  • Frédérique Aït-Touati
  • 6 minutes

The historian of science recently co-edited, with Emanuele Coccia, the collective work Le cri de Gaïa, penser la Terre avec Bruno Latour. Here she opens the way to an unprecedented exploration, that of a “New New World” that disrupts the codes of cartography and learning.

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