Techno-naturans vs. Terraforming. The Technique-Nature Relationship in Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze, and Benjamin Bratton; 1st ed.

León Casero, Jorge

En : Post-Apocalyptic Cultures: New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity
2024
Palgrave Macmillan Cham
ISBN: 978-3-031-50510-2
Pp: 3–20

Resumen: Vis-à-vis the technocratic and productivist notion of technology implemented by hegemonic modernity, the materialism of Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari has laid the foundations for developing a symbiotic and co-productive (sympoietic) notion of the relationship between Technology and Nature, understanding matter as a self-organizing active force (natura naturans) capable of entering into complex relationships with sociocultural systems typical of any type of living being, whether based on carbon or silicon. Faced with these, the terraforming project proposed by Benjamin Bratton in The Stack supposes a politically reactionary return to Cartesian mechanism and the Promethean-productivist political economies of modernity, although conveniently updated through the use of second-order cybernetics and accelerationist discourse.