Contemporary debates on future development in the so-called Anthropocene are mostly characterized by the call for a transformation of the “socio-ecological system” and its economic and technological dispositives. The debate is based on more or less familiar instruments of economic critique, on the one hand, and the plea for sustainable change, especially in terms of a climate-neutral way of life, on the other hand. This text chooses a different approach. It explores the potential for a revision …
Read moreContemporary debates on future development in the so-called Anthropocene are mostly characterized by the call for a transformation of the “socio-ecological system” and its economic and technological dispositives. The debate is based on more or less familiar instruments of economic critique, on the one hand, and the plea for sustainable change, especially in terms of a climate-neutral way of life, on the other hand. This text chooses a different approach. It explores the potential for a revision of the existing knowledge order and the relevant regimes shaped by it. This is based on the assumption that new ways of thinking and proceeding would be needed to cultivate a relationship with the world that understands our thinking and acting as an interplay—co-agency—with nonhuman actors. Transformation, therefore, primarily means a transformation of the human self-image as part of a constellation of various agencies. This text’s purpose is to create a stimulating map of thoughts that provides impulses for concrete explorative transformative practices in the sense of a co-agency of humans, technology, and nature, which makes “uncertain curiosity” a strong leitmotif.
