Di-vision: The making of the “Anthropos” and the origins of the Anthropocene
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Anthropocene, capitalism, technoscience, rule of law, Antropoceno, tecnociencia, capitalismo, estado de derechoAbstract
The current geological transition implies the necessity of a paradigm shift in dominant social practices to cope with an emerging unstable global socio-ecological complex, which is being shaped by comprehensive, irreversible and uncertain human agency. Along with sustainability, issues of justice are crucial in this context including climate justice, which addresses the most notorious phenomenon of the transition to the Anthropocene, i.e. climate change. Such a paradigm shift implies the need to go beyond established practices in research and exploring new narratives. This paper develops a possible narrative of the civilizational patterns that led to the human transformation of the planet, and shows the limits of business-as-usual responses to confronting the global crisis brought about by the geological transition, and consequently their limited ability to achieve sustainability and justice in the Anthropocene. The narrative deployed here highlights the centrality of a particular form of vision in Modernity and its contribution to the establishment of hierarchies through the di-vision between the in-di-vidual and the external world, i.e. nature, which is untenable in the Anthropocene.La actual transición geológica implica la necesidad de un cambio de paradigma en las prácticas sociales dominantes para hacer frente a la inestabilidad del complejo socioecológico global emergente, configurado por una agencia humana integral, irreversible e incierta. Junto con la sostenibilidad, las cuestiones de justicia son cruciales en este contexto, incluida la justicia climática, que aborda el fenómeno más notorio de la transición al Antropoceno, es decir, el cambio climático. Tal cambio de paradigma implica la necesidad de ir más allá de las prácticas establecidas en la investigación y explorar nuevas narrativas. Este artículo desarrolla un posible relato alrededor de los patrones de civilización que han llevado a la transformación humana del planeta y muestra los límites de las respuestas habituales para enfrentar la crisis global provocada por la transición geológica y, en consecuencia, su limitada capacidad para lograr sostenibilidad y justicia en el Antropoceno. La narrativa aquí desplegada destaca la centralidad de una forma particular de visión en la Modernidad y su contribución al establecimiento de jerarquías a través de la di-visión entre el in-di-viduo y el mundo exterior, es decir, la naturaleza, que es insostenible en el Antropoceno.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1176
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