Sobre cosmotécnica: para uma relação renovada entre tecnologia e natureza no Antropoceno

This article aims to present a critical reflection on a renewed relationship between nature and technology in the Anthropocene, contextualizing the issue around recent debates on the “ontological turn” in anthropology, which attempts to go beyond the dualism between nature and culture analyzed as the crisis of modernity. The “politics of ontologies” associated with this movement in anthropology opens up the question of the participation of non-humans. This article contrasts this anthropological attempt with the work of philosopher Gilbert Simondon, who seeks to overcome the antagonism between culture and technology. According to Simondon, this antagonism results from the technological rupture of modernity at the end of the 18th century. This article analyses the differences in the oppositions presented in his work: culture vs. nature, culture vs. technique, to show that a dialogue between the anthropology of nature (illustrated by Philippe Descola's work) and the philosophy of technology (illustrated by Simondon's work) will be fruitful in conceptualizing a renewed relationship between nature and technology. One way of starting this dialog, as well as reflecting on the reconciliation between nature and technology, which this article attempts to demonstrate, is to develop the concept of cosmotechnics as the denominator of these two currents of thought.