Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
Duverger Timothée |
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Écosocialisme ou barbarie. La technocritique, source de l’écologie politique d’André Gorz | ||
in Ecologie et politique , n. 54, Travail animal, l’autre champ du social , 2017 , 125-134 | ||
The work of André Gorz is often understood in the light of existentialism or the anticapitalist theory. Few are those who take an interest in his technocriticism, while it is the keystone of his social thought. On the one hand, from his book Ecology and Politics (1978) to The Immaterial (2003), he promotes a utopian society sheltering self-governed workshops in order to extend the autonomous sphere. On the other hand, he disapproves of a dystopian society where technology controls humanity. The alternative is thus between ecosocialism and barbarity. All Gorz’s political ecology is found in this defense of the lived world against the obsolescence of man organized by capitalism. | ||