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Anticipations of Digital Sustainability: Self-Delusions, Disappointments and Expectations
In Roberto Poli & Marco Valerio (eds.), Anticipation, Agency and Complexity, Springer Verlag. pp. 99-120. 2019.

The strong momentum of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the last decades has been associated with mostly positive anticipations of their impact as drivers of human progress, especially as a key element of response to the challenges posed by the unsustainability of our current social, economic and environmental behaviors. A particular perspective is taken on the actual impact of ICTs to show that, contrary to the mainstream perception, for now their net impact on overall susta…Read more
The strong momentum of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the last decades has been associated with mostly positive anticipations of their impact as drivers of human progress, especially as a key element of response to the challenges posed by the unsustainability of our current social, economic and environmental behaviors. A particular perspective is taken on the actual impact of ICTs to show that, contrary to the mainstream perception, for now their net impact on overall sustainability is negative. This in turn is suggested to be a result of how ICTs and innovation in general are presently conceived and framed, in a way that actually inhibits their potential for human progress in harmony with the environment. The need is claimed for a more complex anticipatory framework of the interplay between Science, Technology and Society, in order to reverse the situation and make digital tech useful for life as a whole.
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Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there
with Ioan Fazey, Niko Schäpke, Guido Caniglia, Anthony Hodgson, Ian Kendrick, Christopher Lyon, Glenn Page, James Patterson, Chris Riedy, Tim Strasser, Stephan Verveen, David Adams, Bruce Goldstein, Matthias Klaes, Graham Leicester, Alison Linyard, Adrienne McCurdy, Paul Ryan, Bill Sharpe, Giorgia Silvestri, Ali Yansyah Abdurrahim, David Abson, Olufemi Samson Adetunji, Paulina Aldunce, Jennifer Marie Amparo, Helene Amundsen, Lakin Anderson, Lotta Andersson, Michael Asquith, Karoline Augenstein, Jack Barrie, David Bent, Julia Bentz, Arvid Bergsten, Carol Berzonsky, Olivia Bina, Kirsty Blackstock, Joanna Boehnert, Hilary Bradbury, Christine Brand, Jessica Böhme Sangmeister), Marianne Mille Bøjer, Esther Carmen, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Sarah Choudhury, Supot Chunhachoti-Ananta, Jessica Cockburn, John Colvin, Irena L. C. Connon, Rosalind Cornforth, Robin S. Cox, Nicholas Cradock-Henry, Laura Cramer, Almendra Cremaschi, Halvor Dannevig, Catherine T. Day, Cathel de Lima Hutchison, Anke de Vrieze, Vikas Desai, Jonathan Dolley, Dominic Duckett, Rachael Amy Durrant, Markus Egermann, Chris Fremantle, Jessica Fullwood-Thomas, Diego Galafassi, Jen Gobby, Ami Golland, Shiara Kirana González-Padrón, Irmelin Gram-Hanssen, Jakob Grandin, Sara Grenni, Jade Lauren Gunnell, Felipe Gusmao, Maike Hamann, Brian Harding, Gavin Harper, Mia Hesselgren, Dina Hestad, Cheryl Anne Heykoop, Johan Holmén, Kirsty Holstead, Claire Hoolohan, Andra Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Lummina Geertruida Horlings, Stuart Mark Howden, Rachel Angharad Howell, Sarah Insia Huque, Mirna Liz Inturias Canedo, Chidinma Yvonne Iro, Christopher D. Ives, Beatrice John, Rajiv Joshi, Sadhbh Juarez-Bourke, Dauglas Wafula Juma, Bea Cecilie Karlsen, Lea Kliem, Andreas Kläy, Petra Kuenkel, Iris Kunze, David Patrick Michael Lam, Daniel J. Lang, Alice Larkin, Ann Light, Christopher Luederitz, Tobias Luthe, Cathy Maguire, Ana Maria Mahecha-Groot, Jackie Malcolm, Fiona Marshall, Yiheyis Maru, Carly McLachlan, and P. Mmbando

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get…Read more
Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent.
A dimensão dos valores entre habitantes de uma cidade do interior: um estudo intracultural
Manuscrito. Uberlândia: Ufu. forthcoming.
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Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer
Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (1): 145-165. 2015.

In this paper I demonstrate the connection between the single remark Wittgenstein made explicitly on Hans Vaihinger’s Die Philosophie des als ob and the remarks he made on Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough. After a critical-genetic exposition of the relevant material, I offer an interpretation of that connection, which will require that I interpret the remark on the philosophy of “as if” relative to how Wittgenstein seems to regard Vaihinger’s fictionalism and relative to how Wittgenste…Read more
In this paper I demonstrate the connection between the single remark Wittgenstein made explicitly on Hans Vaihinger’s Die Philosophie des als ob and the remarks he made on Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough. After a critical-genetic exposition of the relevant material, I offer an interpretation of that connection, which will require that I interpret the remark on the philosophy of “as if” relative to how Wittgenstein seems to regard Vaihinger’s fictionalism and relative to how Wittgenstein reads Frazer

Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there
with Ioan Fazey, Niko Schäpke, Guido Caniglia, Anthony Hodgson, Ian Kendrick, Christopher Lyon, Glenn Page, James Patterson, Chris Riedy, Tim Strasser, Stephan Verveen, David Adams, Bruce Goldstein, Matthias Klaes, Graham Leicester, Alison Linyard, Adrienne McCurdy, Paul Ryan, Bill Sharpe, Giorgia Silvestri, Ali Yansyah Abdurrahim, David Abson, Olufemi Samson Adetunji, Paulina Aldunce, Jennifer Marie Amparo, Helene Amundsen, Lakin Anderson, Lotta Andersson, Michael Asquith, Karoline Augenstein, Jack Barrie, David Bent, Julia Bentz, Arvid Bergsten, Carol Berzonsky, Olivia Bina, Kirsty Blackstock, Joanna Boehnert, Hilary Bradbury, Christine Brand, Jessica Böhme, Marianne Mille Bøjer, Esther Carmen, Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, Sarah Choudhury, Supot Chunhachoti-Ananta, Jessica Cockburn, John Colvin, Irena L. C. Connon, and Rosalind Cornforth

Energy Research and Social Science 70. 2020.

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get…Read more
Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating the societal changes needed to address challenges like climate change. In this research we used a novel futures-oriented and participatory approach that asked what future envisioned knowledge systems might need to look like and how we might get there. Findings suggest that envisioned future systems will need to be much more collaborative, open, diverse, egalitarian, and able to work with values and systemic issues. They will also need to go beyond producing knowledge about our world to generating wisdom about how to act within it. To get to envisioned systems we will need to rapidly scale methodological innovations, connect innovators, and creatively accelerate learning about working with intractable challenges. We will also need to create new funding schemes, a global knowledge commons, and challenge deeply held assumptions. To genuinely be a creative force in supporting longevity of human and non-human life on our planet, the shift in knowledge systems will probably need to be at the scale of the enlightenment and speed of the scientific and technological revolution accompanying the second World War. This will require bold and strategic action from governments, scientists, civic society and sustained transformational intent.

Sustainability Knowledge

Carlos Pereira

Anticipations of Digital Sustainability: Self-Delusions, Disappointments and Expectations
In Roberto Poli & Marco Valerio (eds.), Anticipation, Agency and Complexity, Springer Verlag. pp. 99-120. 2019.

A dimensão dos valores entre habitantes de uma cidade do interior: um estudo intracultural
Manuscrito. Uberlândia: Ufu. forthcoming.

Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer
Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (1): 145-165. 2015.

Carlos Pereira

Anticipations of Digital Sustainability: Self-Delusions, Disappointments and Expectations In Roberto Poli & Marco Valerio (eds.), Anticipation, Agency and Complexity, Springer Verlag. pp. 99-120. 2019.

A dimensão dos valores entre habitantes de uma cidade do interior: um estudo intracultural Manuscrito. Uberlândia: Ufu. forthcoming.

Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (1): 145-165. 2015.

Anticipations of Digital Sustainability: Self-Delusions, Disappointments and Expectations
In Roberto Poli & Marco Valerio (eds.), Anticipation, Agency and Complexity, Springer Verlag. pp. 99-120. 2019.

A dimensão dos valores entre habitantes de uma cidade do interior: um estudo intracultural
Manuscrito. Uberlândia: Ufu. forthcoming.

Wittgenstein on Vaihinger and Frazer
Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (1): 145-165. 2015.