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03220aam a2200361 i 4500 001 AA515F48F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 211103t20222022enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1839980184 020 $a 9781839980183 035 $a (OCoLC)1285702436 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d TXI $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d SILO 050 4 $a JA66 F58 2022 100 1 $a Fluss, Harrison. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000480022292 245 10 $a Prometheus and Gaia : $b technology, ecology and anti-humanism / $c Harrison Fluss and Landon Frim. 246 30 $a Technology, ecology and anti-humanism 264 1 $a London ; $b Anthem Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 182 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Anthem Series on Politics and Society After Work 504 $a Includes footnotes with bibliographical references, and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : fear and loathing in the twenty-first century -- Prometheus and Gaia -- Accelerationism -- Eco-pessimism -- Coincidence of opposites -- Epilogue : beyond the void. 520 $a Prometheus and Gaia examines the ideological currents known as Futurism and Eco-Pessimism. While these tendencies are rarely spoken about explicitly, especially in mainstream discourse, they do have strong (if subterranean) influences on today's popular politics. In light of the existential threats posed by climate change, nuclear proliferation, disruptive technologies (especially bioengineering and AI) and looming economic crises, many have grown weary of the "small fixes" offered by conventional politicians. Worsening climate change, to take one example, appears to be a problem that "reducing, reusing, and recycling," or non-binding treaties, are inadequate to remedy. Likewise, perennial economic crises seem too large and too systemic a threat compared to the moderate "fixes" of quantitative easing and government bailouts. If the system, itself, is the problem, then some radical change appears necessary. What these two ideologies have in common is a strident anti-humanism. Each, in their own way, subordinates human welfare and reason to some alien "other." This common anti-humanism is, in some respects, more important than the specific "other" that they designate--whether this be an anarchic nature or a dynamic technology. In both cases, what stands above humanity is valorized as an object of adoration rather than true understanding or comprehension. This need for radical transcendence beyond the human masquerades as a new form of politics; in fact it is a pre-modern and counter-Enlightenment tendency. Prometheus and Gaia seeks to uncover and demystify this strange coincidence of opposites, and goes on to make the positive case for a humanistic rationalism. 650 0 $a Political science $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Technological innovations $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Pessimism $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Ecology $x Philosophy. 700 1 $a Frim, Landon. $e author. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781839980206 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403014343.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA515F48F17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search