| Title |
: New Perspectives on the Techno-Ecological Governance: A Comparative Study Between Eco-phenomenology and Actor-Network Theory |
| Date |
: 2015. 06 |
| Journal title |
: ECO |
| Author |
: June-Seok Lee |
| Contact us |
: csts@khu.ac.kr |
| Abstract |
: This article explains a comparative study between two recently emerging theories about society and nature. These theories both deal with new relationship between subjects and objects; human actors and nonhuman actants; values and facts. First theory is eco-phenomenology which emerged 10 years or so ago. In general, phenomenology regards the role of technology highly important to the experiences of Dasein. If man has developed incorrect or bad relationship with technology, and it resulted in current ecological crisis, then we need to redesign the links between humans and nonhumans. Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the second theory that this article analyzes, is good at this task. ANT has been evolved since 1980’s by John Law, Michel Callon and Bruno Latour. One of its developers, Latour has been developing a non-modernist viewpoint on our nature and culture, namely amodernism and compositionism. Latour’s idea is to deny the old dichotomy that the modernism has been claimed. He created a neologism, pragmatogony to assert a new direction from nature to culture instead of from culture to nature. He also developed a theory of ecological politics to build a Parliament of Things to initiate Dingpolitik. We will research into these two theories, to see if a meeting between them can be arranged. When achieved, this new conjoined approach will help us to build a better relationship between society and nature.
Key words: techno-ecological governance, eco-phenomenology, actor-network theory, Modernist dichotomy, pragmatogony
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