The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time Stoekl Allan
Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of clich--to a substantive, truly sustainable futureIs sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to…
Specifikacia The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time Stoekl Allan
Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of clich--to a substantive, truly sustainable futureIs sustainability a hopelessly vague word, with meager purpose aside from a feel-good appeal to the consumer? In The Three Sustainabilities, Allan Stoekl seeks to (re)valorize the word, for a simple reason: it is useful. Sustainability designates objects in time, their birth or genesis, their consistency, their survival, their demise. And it raises the question, as no other word does, of the role of humans in the survival of a world that is quickly disappearing--and perhaps in the genesis of another world.Stoekl considers a range of possibilities for the word, touching upon questions of object ontology, psychoanalysis, urban critique, technocracy, and religion. He argues that there are three varieties of sustainability, seen from
The Experience Economy
The Cosmos Economy
The Gig Economy