TECHNOSPHERE: PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS, DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES

Abstract

The global technological environment, which mediates the interaction of mankind with the biosphere, carries technogenic and environmental hazards and serious anthropological and social risks. Today there is a tendency in which every improvement of the technogenic system ultimately increases its negative impact on nature on the principle of negative feedback. In such a situation, an objective assessment of the technosphere’s characteristics is necessary for timely harmonization in the relationship “Human – Natural Environment”. The purpose of the article is to conceptualize ideas about the technogenic path of human development and to introduce the concept of “ecological technosphere” as a new stage of coevolutionary relations between nature and technogenic civilization. The research is carried out within the framework of the concept of post-classical science, a structural and functional approach, postphenomenology, actor-network theory. In the article, based on the concepts of “technique”, “technology”, “technocenosis”, “technological environment”, an ontological analysis of the concept of “technosphere” is proposed, its essential characteristics and risky scenarios of development are highlighted. The article was carried out within the framework of the project “Socio-ecological monitoring of the technical environment of the region: a socio-cultural approach” (RFBR Grant 20-311-90060 Graduate students)

Keywords

• philosophy of science and technology
• technoscience
• engineering
• technology
• technical environment
• technosphere
• ecological technosphere
• technological development
• socio-anthropological risks