S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it (Jun 2019)
Dall’Antropocene al Tecnocene. Prospettive etico-antropologiche dalla “terra incognita”
Abstract
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.
