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The technosphere, our agency, our planet

What can we do, what should we do?

Author: James Dyke

Posted on July 22, 2019July 22, 2019

We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself

The following is a repost of an article originally published in The Conversation and The Idependent. The coffee tasted bad. Acrid and with a sweet, sickly smell. The sort of coffee that results from overfilling the filter machine and then leaving the brew to stew on the hot plate for several hours. The sort of …

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Posted on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019

Welcome to the Technosphere

Congratulations on deciding to visit our site. Or did you? Did you decide to pay us a visit? Or where you merely acting out some purely deterministic plan? These are not the sorts of questions we are interested in here. Rather than consider whether individual's possess free will, we instead explore the notion that humanity …

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Posted on March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

Recent contributions

  • Jarvis
    • Drivers wanted
  • Axel Kleidon
    • Do humans have free will? Or are our actions merely manifestations of a thermodynamic imperative? Or are both views right in their own ways?
  • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
    • Infrastructure and co-evolutionary technology: Overcoming anthropocentrism in human niche construction
    • In praise of ‘kaputt’ technology
  • Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger
    • There is no climate justice without decolonization
  • James Dyke
    • We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself
    • Welcome to the Technosphere
  • Stefan Knauß
    • Coral Cultivation: Technosphere on the Edge
  • Bronislaw Szerszynski
    • The technosphere as a ‘major transition’?
    • Agere and gerere – on ‘action’ in the critical zone

New comments

  • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath on Breaking the iron triangle: Technosphere, finance, land
  • Eduardo Relly on Breaking the iron triangle: Technosphere, finance, land
  • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath on Breaking the iron triangle: Technosphere, finance, land
  • Eduardo Relly on Breaking the iron triangle: Technosphere, finance, land
  • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath on The messiness of human life: the ultimate limit of technosphere expansion

Topics

  • The Journey Begins
  • Welcome to the Technosphere
  • Our goals
  • Do humans have free will? Or are our actions merely manifestations of a thermodynamic imperative? Or are both views right in their own ways?
  • In a Climate-neutral Solar Economy, Would the Technosphere Outcompete the Biosphere? A Provocation.
  • The technosphere as a ‘major transition’?
  • Agere and gerere – on ‘action’ in the critical zone
  • A Unified Evolutionary Approach to the Biosphere and the Technosphere?
  • Solving the Puzzle of Emergent Order: The Case for Maximum Entropy Thinking
  • Revolution impossible? Us against Us
  • Drivers wanted
  • The Challenge: Agency in the Technosphere
  • Marxism and the Technosphere
  • Why we can regain agency and how – a riposte to James Dyke
  • We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself
  • Co-creation and agency in the Earth system
  • In a Climate-neutral Solar Economy, Would the Technosphere Outcompete the Biosphere? A Provocation.

Recent posts

  • Infrastructure and co-evolutionary technology: Overcoming anthropocentrism in human niche construction January 23, 2023
  • In praise of ‘kaputt’ technology November 20, 2022
  • Breaking the iron triangle: Technosphere, finance, land November 3, 2022
  • De-mystifying money: money as technology September 18, 2022
  • Who can stop the ‘blue acceleration’? The utopia of ‘ocean commons’ July 15, 2022
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