Fragmented horizons : multinational firms & ethical life in the Anthropocene
In this research project, I engage in the task of delineating the conditions of possibility of human action in the institutional structures of contemporary capitalism, in the age of the Anthropocene. In other words, I reflect on the circumstances required for people to relate appropriatively to the socio-ecological practices they deploy at the workplace, so that these resonate with their fundamental aspirations and thus positively contribute towards the collective search of the good life, with and for others, in just institutions. Once described as the 'blue planet' which sphericity could be admired from outer space, the Earth has become, with the advent of the Anthropocene, a thin, tiny, fragile pellicle - a critical zone with frail equilibriums in which human beings have to live, and that admits no outside. However, as most societies have embarked on an unprecedented spiral of acceleration, attempts to redefine sustainable ethical horizons and to articulate corresponding transformative practices stumble over the rigidity of existing social structures, which technological lock-ins inherited from the past significantly reinforce. This inertia is particularly critical in the case of the fossil fuel industry:
Choquet, Pierre-Louis
Fragmented horizons : multinational firms & ethical life in the Anthropocene. In this research project, I engage in the task of delineating the conditions of possibility of human action in the institutional structures of contemporary capitalism, in the age of the Anthropocene. In other words, I reflect on the circumstances required for people to relate appropriatively to the socio-ecological practices they deploy at the workplace, so that these resonate with their fundamental aspirations and thus positively contribute towards the collective search of the good life, with and for others, in just institutions. Once described as the 'blue planet' which sphericity could be admired from outer space, the Earth has become, with the advent of the Anthropocene, a thin, tiny, fragile pellicle - a critical zone with frail equilibriums in which human beings have to live, and that admits no outside. However, as most societies have embarked on an unprecedented spiral of acceleration, attempts to redefine sustainable ethical horizons and to articulate corresponding transformative practices stumble over the rigidity of existing social structures, which technological lock-ins inherited from the past significantly reinforce. This inertia is particularly critical in the case of the fossil fuel industry:
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