Cosmopolitics. In Conversation with Isabelle Stengers
by Federica Giardini
pp. 38-53 Issue 19 (10,1) – January-June 2023 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2023.10.1.3
Abstract
The collaboration, the exchange, the convergences and divergences, between Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers stretched over the decades, settling in different textual forms. While in De Vries’ text dedicated to Latour’s work this collaboration appears only in passing; Philippe Pignarre’s recent volume is entirely dedicated to it. This text intends to focus on the concept of cosmopolitics, in the use that both Stengers and Latour make of it. The issue is interesting, namely because it constitutes a point of access to Latour’s thinking, enriching it with the exchanges that oriented him, but above all because it allows us to clarify in a differential way what can be understood by politics, in the perspective of the socio-environmental crisis.