Gatekeepers and Gated Communities

In his 2018 essay Down to Earth, the French philosopher Bruno Latour proposes a hypothesis that connects number of contemporary issues, ranging from climate denialism deregulation and growing inequality. While hypothesis, namely elites act as if they live in another world are leaving rest behind, might seem like conspiracy theory, I will argue there is way make sense it. To do so, turn two other authors, Timothy Mitchell Shoshana Zuboff, highlight kind logic seems have mind. final section, propose capture commonalities these authors through concept shifting reciprocities return Latour’s political plea define one’s territories, reinterpreted reciprocities.