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The technosphere, our agency, our planet

What can we do, what should we do?

Author: Stefan Knauß

Dr. Stefan Knauß (* 1983) is a research associate for Sustainable Landscape Development at the Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg. He studied Political Science, Media and Communication Science in Halle, Catania and Parma and received his PhD in Philosophy 2015 from the University of Halle for the dissertation "From Conquista to Responsibility while Protecting - The Debate of Humanitarian Justified Warfare from a Latin American Perspective". From 2017 to 2020 he held the research position "Eigene Stelle" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the research project "A Physiocentric Founding of Law - With the Latin American Buen Vivir Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature?". His areas of special interest are legal philosophy (in particular human rights and humanitarian interventions), Intercultural Philosophy and Decolonial Thinking (in particular Latin America) as well as environmental ethics.
Posted on January 23, 2021February 8, 2021

Coral Cultivation: Technosphere on the Edge

"Coral Cultivation: Technosphere on the Edge" by Boris Wille and Stefan Knauß shows how Marine-Biologists are trying fix the coral calamity by “coral cultivation”. These iniatives are particularly feasible to think with about Gaia 2.0 and the Technosphere.

Recent contributions

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  • Axel Kleidon
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  • James Dyke
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    • Welcome to the Technosphere
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    • Coral Cultivation: Technosphere on the Edge
  • Bronislaw Szerszynski
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    • Agere and gerere – on ‘action’ in the critical zone

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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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