Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”

From the Anthropocene to the Technocene: Ethical-anthropological Perspectives from the “terra incognita” By assuming a transcendental approach, my paper aims to suggest that “the essence of the Anthropocene is by no means anything anthropocenic”. That is to say, the Anthropocene represents a philos...

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Main Author: CERA, AGOSTINO
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description From the Anthropocene to the Technocene: Ethical-anthropological Perspectives from the “terra incognita” By assuming a transcendental approach, my paper aims to suggest that “the essence of the Anthropocene is by no means anything anthropocenic”. That is to say, the Anthropocene represents a philosophical rather than a scientific question, because it essentially equates to a Weltanschauung or «a paradigm dressed as epoch» (§1). Given this assumption, I try to bring out the basic features of such a paradigm, namely: the osmotic fusion between techne and physis (§ 2); the problem of periodization (§ 3); the ontological equation between “being” and “being makeable” (§ 4); the anthropological metamorphosis of homo faber into homo materia/Bestand man (§ 4). The final outcome of these considerations is that this aspirant new (geological) epoch isn’t the «Age of Humans» or «Menschenzeit», rather the age of technology as «subject of history» and thus my re-definition of Anthropo-cene as Techno-cene.
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spelling doaj.art-0926f0c7a1f9489e80d89849e14e45d42022-12-22T00:50:29ZengS&F_scienzaefilosofia.itS&F_scienzaefilosofia.it2036-29272019-06-0121179198Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”CERA, AGOSTINO0Università della BasilicataFrom the Anthropocene to the Technocene: Ethical-anthropological Perspectives from the “terra incognita” By assuming a transcendental approach, my paper aims to suggest that “the essence of the Anthropocene is by no means anything anthropocenic”. That is to say, the Anthropocene represents a philosophical rather than a scientific question, because it essentially equates to a Weltanschauung or «a paradigm dressed as epoch» (§1). Given this assumption, I try to bring out the basic features of such a paradigm, namely: the osmotic fusion between techne and physis (§ 2); the problem of periodization (§ 3); the ontological equation between “being” and “being makeable” (§ 4); the anthropological metamorphosis of homo faber into homo materia/Bestand man (§ 4). The final outcome of these considerations is that this aspirant new (geological) epoch isn’t the «Age of Humans» or «Menschenzeit», rather the age of technology as «subject of history» and thus my re-definition of Anthropo-cene as Techno-cene.http://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/21-12-cera.pdfanthropocenenaturscience
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title Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”
title_full Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”
title_fullStr Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”
title_full_unstemmed Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”
title_short Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”
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