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Ecotechnology is anapplied science that seeks to fulfillhuman needs while causing minimal ecological disruption, by harnessing and manipulating natural forces to leverage their beneficial effects. Ecotechnology integrates two fields of study: the 'ecology of technics' and the 'technics of ecology,' requiring an understanding of the structures and processes ofecosystems and societies. Allsustainable engineering that can reduce damage to ecosystems, adopt ecology as a fundamental basis, and ensure conservation ofbiodiversity and sustainable development may be considered as forms of ecotechnology.[citation needed]
Ecotechnology emphasizes approaching a problem from aholistic point of view; for example, holding thatenvironmental remediation of rivers should not only consider one single area but the wholecatchment area, which includes the upstream, middle-stream, and downstream sections.[citation needed]
The construction industry can, in the ecotechnology view, reduce its impact on nature by consulting experts on the environment.[citation needed]
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DuringEcotechnics '95 - International Symposium on Ecological Engineering inÖstersund,Sweden, the participants agreed on the definition: "Ecotechnics is defined as the method of designing future societies within ecological frames."
Ecotechnics is defined as the 'techne' of bodies.[clarification needed] Ecotechnics thinks of the body as a technology which makes possible[among whom?] the inclusion of a whole new range of bodies[dubious –discuss]. This gives people[who?] more agency andbiopower over their own use of their bodies.[citation needed] This makes it usable[among whom?] forqueer theory anddisability studies.[citation needed] An interpretation[among whom?] also refers to the term as the craft of the home.[1][failed verification]In classifying the body as a technical object,[clarification needed]Jean-Luc Nancy explained how it works by partitioning bodies[clarification needed] into their own zones[clarification needed] and spaces[clarification needed], which also allow such bodies to connect with other bodies.[2][clarification needed] Hence, Nancy claims that technology determine our interactions with other beings[who?] in the world.[clarification needed][2] Ecotechnics is also central[among whom?] in Sullivan's and Murray's collection of essaysQueering the Technologisation of Bodies.[citation needed] It is built[by whom?] onBernard Stiegler's work that sees the body and technology as a double process: the technology and the body are informed by each other.[citation needed]Derrida who extends on both Nancy and Stiegler's ideas argues that the 'proper body' implicates[among whom?] interconnections of technical additions.[clarification needed] Ecotechnics goes against theessentialist and binary notion of the body[citation needed] as a technological object which positions it withinpost-structuralism.[citation needed] The body can only be understood[by whom?] within its environment and this environment is a technical one.[citation needed]
Nancy also applied the ecotechnics concept to contemporary issues such as war and globalization. He maintained, for instance, that modern conflicts are produced by the dividing lines between: North and South; rich and poor; and, integrated and excluded.[3] He also believes that ecotechnics is undoing communities due to the elimination of thepolis and the prevalence ofoikos, calling for a global sovereignty that would administer the world as a single household.[4]
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