Haciendo más salvaje el Antropoceno. Rewilding y domesticación

José Manuel de Cózar Escalante

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.2214

Making the Anthropocene wilder. Rewilding and domestication

Authors

José Manuel de Cózar Escalante Universidad de La Laguna https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7057-3830

Abstract

There is increasing support for a proposal to designate our age as the "Anthropocene". It highlights the growing role of Homo sapiens in the transformation of the planet on a global scale, as if human actions were a geological force. There are those who embrace this situation, because they conceive the relationship of our species with nature as a combat, the result of which must be the complete domestication of Gaia (and perhaps our own self-domestication) through technological advances. However, others want to make our surroundings and ourselves more savage through intensive "rewilding" programs. In the background is a growing conflict between humanist and transhumanist visions. My main objective in this work is to suggest a peaceful coexistence of domestication and rewilding in order to face the very serious problems that are coming with the Anthropocene.

Keywords

Anthropocene, Domestication, Rewilding, Transhumanism

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Author Biography

José Manuel de Cózar Escalante, Universidad de La Laguna

Profesor titular de la Universidad de La Laguna desde 1995. Doctor en Filosofía por la Universitat de València en 1989. Sus intereses académicos giran en torno a los estudios de ciencia, tecnología y sociedad y la filosofía ambiental. Más específicamente, lleva años investigando y publicando sobre las implicaciones epistemológicas y sociales de la nanotecnología y su convergencia con otras tecnologías.