ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Rise and Demise of Industrial Modernity
Contemporary societies are underpinned by industrial modernity: a set of commonly shared ideas, institutions and practices related to the natural environment and technoscience. Having historically unleashed massive leaps in productivity, economic growth and societal welfare, many traits of industrial modernity have now become maladapted to the current socio-ecological polycrisis. As a result science and technology promise to solve the grand challenges of climate change, resource depletion and loss of biodiversity with one hand, only to keep intensifying them with another. There is thus a fundamental need to rethink industrial modernity. Attempts to detect signs of this fundamental shift…
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