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A socio-historical ontology of technics: Beyond technology

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  • Adrián Almazán

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Ours are Days of Decision and it's indispensable to transform our technics. For it, we must abandon the inherited conception of technics based on neutrality and autonomy. To this end, in this article we develop a socio-historical ontology for technics that argues: (a) To understand technics we have to take into consideration technical objects, handling, and the degree of guidance of the animal user. (b) Each technics is inseparable from its society. (c) The idea of a free use of technics is illusory. There are always unexpected impacts and various uses of a given technics. (d) Technologies of the Capitalocene are imperial. (e) Technologies have acquired a destructive inertia and we have the obligation to understand technological development as a political phenomenon. (f) In order to go beyond the Capitalocene and advance towards Degrowth, we have to move from imperial technologies to humble technics.

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  • Adrián Almazán, 2024. "A socio-historical ontology of technics: Beyond technology," Environmental Values, , vol. 33(1), pages 12-27, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envval:v:33:y:2024:i:1:p:12-27
    DOI: 10.1177/09632719231209742
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