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The technosphere, our agency, our planet

What can we do, what should we do?

Tag: anthropocene

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.

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

There is no climate justice without decolonization

By Urs Lindner and Cécile Stehrenberger Climate protection and climate justice are not necessarily the same thing. Last week – climate strike week – Marvin Volk from Fridays for Future Erfurt made this point in a short statement he gave during a class we teach. We spent the rest of the seminar exploring the relationship …

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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
    • Saving the Biosphere or Saving by the Biosphere? The Thermodynamics of Negative Interest Rates
    • The Evolutionary Epistemology of the Technosphere
  • 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 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
  • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath on The messiness of human life: the ultimate limit of technosphere expansion
  • Jarvis 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

  • 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
  • Is Anthropocentrism Good Science? Why Sir Partha Got It Wrong February 8, 2021
  • Coral Cultivation: Technosphere on the Edge January 23, 2021
  • Nature-based Solutions: ‘Naturally’ Growing the Technosphere January 20, 2021
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