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Book launch of *De maloca em maloca* by Leandro Carneiro at the 28th São Paulo International Book Biennial.

In her book *The Invention of Modern Science* (1993), philosopher Isabelle Stengers characterizes what we now know as modern science through what she calls the "Galileo event" (17th century)—a contingent yet crucial occurrence marked by the creation of the famous theoretical-experimental method. This method is structured around a presumed total separation between the observing subject and the observed object; indeed, the more efficient this separation between the constituent parts, the more "real" the resulting answer becomes. Its application yields a mutual interplay between theory and observation that often triggers complete theoretical reformulations, which in turn point toward—often unprecedented—paths in the evolution of scientific thought.

For both the history of science and the realm of the imagination, this event—as philosopher Bruno Latour notes—represented the "opening of a window onto the infinite universe," effectively staging the opening up of the world from that moment forward. In light of Latour’s proposition, the question facing us today is how we might return to Earth—to a world where the consequences of such expansion have now become harmful.