Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

Contemporary societies are flooded with scientific information on ecological devastation. Oftentimes, the description of the problem of overshoot is accompanied with technological solutions. If degrowth theorizing does not straightforwardly suffer from a lack of (continental) philosophical analysis on technology—and particularly ‘science’—such could at least be considered to supplement the movement’s scholarly grounds. This article claims that in addition to acknowledging the techno-scientifically produced limits to economic growth, or human expansion at large, there is a need to build an understanding of boundaries mediated by the experience of finitude. This experience cannot and should not be reduced to ethical theory, or any other mode of reasoning characterizing the techno-scientific society. Without a thoroughly explored and explicated experimental take on limits, and particularly in relation to the call to degrow, the movement is in danger to be left at the vagaries of techno-scientific rationales. This study draws on eco-phenomenology to advance an understanding on the sources and dynamics of experiencing finitude, and hereby offers an experimental base for the degrowth movement.

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Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:15
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-3
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Degrowth in the year 2023

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