Technological Encounters in a Knowledge Economy: An Epistemic X-Ray.

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS
ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-29 DOI:10.1089/omi.2024.0003
Vural Özdemir
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Abstract

Climate emergency is a planetary health and systems science challenge because human health, nonhuman animal health, and the health of the planetary ecosystems are coproduced and interdependent. Yet, we live in a time when climate emergency is tackled by platitudes and weak reforms instead of structural and systems changes, and with tools of the very same systems and metanarratives, for example, infinite growth at all costs, that are causing climate change in the first place. Seeking solutions to problems from within the knowledge frames and metanarratives that are causing the problems reproduces the same problems across time and geographies. This article examines and underlines the importance of an epistemological gaze on knowledge economy, an epistemological X-ray, as another solution in the toolbox of decolonial and other social justice struggles in an era of climate emergency. Epistemology questions and excavates the metanarratives embedded in knowledge forms that are popular, dominant, and hegemonic as well as knowledges that are silent, omitted, or erased. In this sense, epistemology does not take the "archives" of data and knowledge for granted but asks questions such as who, when, how, and with what and whose funding the archive was built, and what is included and left out? Epistemological choices made by innovators, funders, and knowledge actors often remain opaque in knowledge economies. Epistemology research is crucial for science and innovations to be responsive to planetary society and climate emergency and mindful of the social, political, neocolonial, and historical contexts of science and technology in the 21st century.

知识经济中的技术邂逅:知识经济中的技术邂逅:认识论 X 光。
气候紧急情况是对地球健康和系统科学的挑战,因为人类健康、非人类动物健康和地球生态系统的健康是共同产生和相互依存的。然而,在我们所处的时代,应对气候紧急情况的方法是陈词滥调和软弱无力的改革,而不是结构性和系统性的变革,所使用的工具也正是导致气候变化的系统和元叙事,例如不惜一切代价的无限增长。从造成问题的知识框架和元叙事中寻求问题的解决方案,会在不同的时间和地域重现同样的问题。本文探讨并强调了对知识经济的认识论凝视--认识论 X 光--的重要性,它是气候紧急时代非殖民主义和其他社会正义斗争工具箱中的另一种解决方案。认识论质疑并挖掘流行的、主导的和霸权的知识形式中蕴含的元叙事,以及沉默的、遗漏的或被抹杀的知识。从这个意义上说,认识论并不把数据和知识的 "档案 "视为理所当然,而是要提出这样的问题:档案是由谁、何时、以何种方式、在何种资助下建立的?在知识经济时代,创新者、资助者和知识参与者做出的认识论选择往往是不透明的。认识论研究对于科学和创新顺应地球社会和气候紧急状况、关注 21 世纪科学技术的社会、政治、新殖民主义和历史背景至关重要。
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