Anthropocène et Entropocène
Vers des exorganismes anti-entropiques dans l’Anthropocène.
Panel proposé par Anne Alombert (Université Catholique de Lille), Michal Krzykawski (Université de Silésie à Katowice), et Maël Montévil (Institut de Recherche et d’Innovation du Centre Pompidou) lors du colloque “Anthropocenes. Reworking the wound.” organisé par l’Université de Silésie à Katowice en juin 2019.
Ce panel explore l’hypothèse selon laquelle l’Anthopocène doit être compris comme un Entropocène, c’est-à-dire, comme un processus d’augmentation de l’entropie à différents niveaux : le niveau thermodynamique (avec le changement climatique et la dispersion des ressources minérales), le niveau biologique (avec la diminution de la biodiversité ou la destruction des écosystèmes), et le niveau psycho-social (avec les phénomènes d’addiction aux technologies, d’automatisation des savoirs, de diffusions de fausses informations ou de défiance envers les institutions).
Présentation du panel
It is impossible to effectively take up the challenges of the Anthropocene within the current macro-economic model which has become globalized over the last five decades. This claim goes far beyond the question of ideological/political convictions. It rather calls upon a rational necessity which requires us to theorize and experiment a new economic model, based on 20th century scientific advances: from thermodynamics, mathematics and biology to heterodox economy, philosophy of technology and social sciences.
In this panel we want to develop chosen theoretical stances and concepts which laid the groundwork for the economic, social and experimental approach to the Anthropocene, elaborated within Internation/Geneva2020 collective. Following the central assumption of this approach, we argue that what is generally referred to as the Anthropocene is characterized by a process of the massive increase of entropy in all its forms: thermodynamic entropy (climate change, mineral resource dispersal), biological entropy (biodiversity crisis, pandemic of non-communicable diseases in humans), information entropy (the so-called post-truth era) and, last but not least, psycho-social entropy (addiction, apathy and distrust of public institutions). Therefore, we describe the Anthropocene as Entropocene. The stake is not to produce just another “-cene;” instead, it is to characterize the nature of the core processes of the Anthropocene and their consequences: a massive increase of entropy. The second stake is to reopen a rational alternative to the Anthropocene within the Anthropocene.
Inasmuch as this rational alternative appears as a rational necessity, it requires us, however, to build new theoretical models and reconceptualize the relationship between scientific/academic practices and localities, approached in the light of thermodynamic constraints.
Lien vers les vidéos du panel.
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