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The technosphere, our agency, our planet

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

  • 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
    • The need for emancipating ourselves from the work ethic of the Technosphere
    • Why technological progress is a delusion and how can get rid of it
  • 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

  • Jarvis on The need for emancipating ourselves from the work ethic of the Technosphere
  • Why technological progress is a delusion and how can get rid of it – The technosphere, our agency, our planet on Anthropocentric ecosystem services versus geocentric technosystem services
  • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath on Is Anthropocentrism Good Science? Why Sir Partha Got It Wrong
  • James Dyke on Is Anthropocentrism Good Science? Why Sir Partha Got It Wrong
  • Stefan Knauß on Is Anthropocentrism Good Science? Why Sir Partha Got It Wrong

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

  • The need for emancipating ourselves from the work ethic of the Technosphere July 14, 2021
  • Why technological progress is a delusion and how can get rid of it May 20, 2021
  • Anthropocentric ecosystem services versus geocentric technosystem services April 28, 2021
  • Saving the Biosphere or Saving by the Biosphere? The Thermodynamics of Negative Interest Rates March 17, 2021
  • The Evolutionary Epistemology of the Technosphere March 13, 2021
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