In late March 2020 Bruno Latour asked me to translate this piece, at the same time as letting me know that he was in hospital with COVID-19. This was distressing news, but he pulled through and hasn't paused to reflect on the experience in writing, as far as I know, keeping busy with the exhibition and book, Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth, which was published later in the year with MIT Press.
This article, for which the literal translation of the title is “What Protective Measures Can You Think of So We Don't Go Back to the Precrisis Production Model?” (Latour 2020d), has been quite successful; twelve other translations listed on Latour's site is a good indication.1 Such success may be attributable to the practical way that it responds to the acute COVID-19 crisis, which it rightly points out is but a...
