The debate between the degrowth left and the ecomodernist left — or, at least, your framing of it — brings out the relevance of the question: to what extent, if any, is the development + social deployment of technology extricable from the inequalities, alienations, and depredations of capital?
So far, history has shown that the large-scale introduction of a technology is at the same time the introduction of a massive material matrix needed to sustain that technology, a matrix that needs human beings to maintain it. The extent to which those human beings undertake dignified, compensated, meaningful work would seem to depend upon the extent to which the technological project is shaped by free-market capitalism. When the latter has been insulated from democratic contestation, the consequences have been ruinous.
All of which lends more support for your claim about the necessity of political intervention.
The undertow beneath the all myths that structure our reality…. beyond the many confrontations at the surface … has always been our agency horizon: human development.
And what if we were to reimagine the city vs country flat dichotomy as a continuum volumetric network of rural periurban and urban interfaces; relays; Nodes; gateways, and so on.
, unfolding along systems of landscapes for ecosystems; biodiversity; and wildlife? Carlos H Betancourth.
Thanks for this essay!
The debate between the degrowth left and the ecomodernist left — or, at least, your framing of it — brings out the relevance of the question: to what extent, if any, is the development + social deployment of technology extricable from the inequalities, alienations, and depredations of capital?
So far, history has shown that the large-scale introduction of a technology is at the same time the introduction of a massive material matrix needed to sustain that technology, a matrix that needs human beings to maintain it. The extent to which those human beings undertake dignified, compensated, meaningful work would seem to depend upon the extent to which the technological project is shaped by free-market capitalism. When the latter has been insulated from democratic contestation, the consequences have been ruinous.
All of which lends more support for your claim about the necessity of political intervention.
I loved reading this! Love from India :)
Very well-done.
I believe the Marxist-Leninist tradition will show the way.
We have to reconcile both camps, tbh.
I throughly enjoyed reading it. Thanks!
The undertow beneath the all myths that structure our reality…. beyond the many confrontations at the surface … has always been our agency horizon: human development.
Its why I dislike the distorted term degrowth > https://gl-10190.medium.com/debunking-degrowth-part-ii-aded18d44652 (also posted on researchgate.net)
And what if we were to reimagine the city vs country flat dichotomy as a continuum volumetric network of rural periurban and urban interfaces; relays; Nodes; gateways, and so on.
, unfolding along systems of landscapes for ecosystems; biodiversity; and wildlife? Carlos H Betancourth.