Sustainability Beyond Technology
Philosophy, Critique, and Implications for Human Organization
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 March 2021
- ISBN 9780198864929
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 240x160x26 mm
- Weight 598 g
- Language English 99
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Short description:
Current debates on sustainability are building on a problematic assumption that technological advancement is a desired phenomenon, creating positive change in human organizations. This transdisciplinary book develops a new way to conceptualize and examine technology, and outlines feasible alternatives for sustainability beyond technology.
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Current debates on sustainability are largely building on a problematic assumption that increasing technology use and advancement are a desired phenomenon, creating positive change in human organizations. This kind of techno-optimism prevails particularly in the discourses of ecological modernization and green growth, as well as in the attempts to design sustainable modes of production and consumption within growth-driven capitalism. This transdisciplinary book investigates the philosophical underpinnings of technology, presents a culturally sensitive critique to technology, and outlines feasible alternatives for sustainability beyond technology. It draws on a variety of scholarly disciplines, including the humanities (philosophy and environmental history), social sciences (ecological economics, political economy, and ecology) and natural sciences (geology and thermodynamics) to contribute to sustainability theory and policy. By examining the conflicts and contradictions between technology and sustainability in human organization, the book develops a novel way to conceptualize, confront, and change technology in modern society.
This is a thoughtful collection of essays that offer a much needed transdisciplinary critique of technological quick fixes to the challenges of sustainability. The authors provide some compelling insights into theories and practices of sustainability.
Table of Contents:
Technology and Sustainability: An Introduction
Part I. Conceptualizing Technology
The Question of Technology: From Noise to Reflection
Earthing Philosophy of Technology: A Case for Ontological Materialism
Atechnological Experience Unfolding: Meaning for the Post-Anthropocene
Part II. Confronting Technology
Competition Within Technology: A Study on Competitive Thought and Moral Growth
Conditions for Alienation: Technological Development and Capital Accumulation
What Does Fossil Energy tell us About Technology?
Reversing the Industrial Revolution: Theorizing the Distributive Dimensions of Energy Transitions
Part III. Changing Technology
An Economy Beyond Instrumental Rationality
Small, Local, and Low-Tech Firm Firms as Agents of Sustainable Change
Creative Reconstruction of the Technological Society: A Path to Sustainability
Technology and Sustainability: A Conclusion
