Just because humans form part of this thing we generally call the 'economy', and may at times appear free to choose how to spend what income it affords them, we mustn't simply assume they sit in the driving seat. Economies are complex objects, and the defining feature of complex things is that the whole is …
The Challenge: Agency in the Technosphere
For some scholars, the technosphere should be approached as a physical phenomenon in the first place. For example, geologists would measure it in terms of artefacts that accumulate in layers of sediments, such as plastics, or Earth system scientists would approach it as the artefacts that make up the infrastructure of human societies, buildings, roads, …
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Our goals
This blog was inspired by two workshops held in 2018 at Lancaster University and at Erfurt (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies) devoted to agency and technosphere. The blog is managed by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Max Weber Centre, who is also a lead contributor, and is supported by a team of regular contributors: …
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 …
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
The technosphere, our agency, our planet 
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