RT Conference Proceedings
T1 The politics of technology in the Anthropocene.
A1 Arias-Maldonado, Manuel Jesús
K1 Cambios climáticos
K1 Naturaleza - Efectos del hombre
K1 Política
K1 Democracia
K1 Ecología
AB Whereas Ulrich Beck suggested that modern societies have become «risk societies», it has been recently proposed that we now live in the «Anthropocene», namely a historical epoch in which humanity turns into a global environmental agent. In both accounts, tehnology plays a key role. However, political theory —including environmental political theory— has overlooked the crucial subject of technological change. How does it happen? Can we control or direct it? Whereas radical environmentalism typically responds with a rejection of technology on normative grounds, aiming at reducing the number of technologies on which societies rely and mostly defending some version of degrowth, ecomodernism decidedly bets on the design and development of new technologies — those that are capable of delivering both mitigation and adaptation of climate change while not impinging on neither economic growth or nature's preservation. Nevertheless, the political dimension of technology remains unexplained. Can we have democratic monitoring and technological change? That is the subject of this paper, which will proceed by offering an overview of the subject before discussing the trilemma of technological change: efficiency, democracy, and social consensus cannot be secured at the same time.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39630
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/39630
LA eng
NO PID2023-149342NB-I00
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 mar 2026