ECOPOLITICS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE AND INTERSPECIES SOCIOTECHNICAL DESIGN

Abstract

This article analyzes counterpoints among cosmopolitics, sympoiesis, ecosocialism, and "degrowth communism" in order to confront the crisis of the Anthropocene with new ways of doing sociotechnical/cosmopolitical design. It offers a critical-analytical literature review that confronts Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory, Donna Haraway's figurations, Nancy Fraser's ecosocialist formulations, Kohei Saito's degrowth communism, and Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology. It investigates how overcoming modern dualisms and reductionisms enables a new understanding of technology as a field of economic and cosmopolitical dispute. It argues that the redemocratization of technical codes and multispecies justice require abandoning the logic of profit and unlimited growth in favor of an economy oriented toward use value and the sharing of wealth. The complementarity between ecological materialism and sociotechnical design reveals that confronting planetary depletion demands more than isolated engineering solutions; it presupposes a transenvironmental project, but also degrowth, technological democratization, and socio-environmental justice. The article concludes that the process of "staying with the trouble" in the Global South calls for a transformative praxis that integrates institutional re-design with mutual care and territorial solidarity, providing the foundation for a platform of convergence among ecopolitical struggles for the emancipatory co-production of existence.