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In “A Plea for Earthly Sciences”, his keynote lecture for the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association in April 2007, Bruno Latour referred to the ecological crisis and to the notion of “explicitation” coined by Peter Sloterdijk: “Everything that earlier was merely ‘given’ becomes ‘explicit’. Air, water, land, all of those were present before in the background: now they are explicitated because we slowly come to realize that they might disappear – and we with them.” (Bruno Latour. “A Plea for Earthly Sciences” www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/102-BSA-GB_0.pdf) (25.5.2015)