Abstract

CARASSALE, Santiago; CONTRERAS ALCANTARA, Javier  and  MARTINEZ PEREZ, Liliana. Futures-present at Stake: Species, Interactions and Community at Technological Frontiers. En-clav. pen [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.34, e564.  Epub July 28, 2023. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i34.564.

The futures-present of be human, as made possible by digital technologies, artificial intelligence, gene editing and astronomic and space exploration technologies, put a strain on the human condition at both a physical and at a psychological level, as well as in connection with evolutionary, biological and ecological assumptions and with the social, political and cosmological coordinates. Our work sets out to explore the circumstances of the emergency and the deployment of a new game between technology, science, economy and politics, the specific qualities of future technologies to articulate the processes of invention, innovation and promise, as well as to reconnoiter the limits or thresholds in dispute, such as those connected with the human being and species, virtual realities, scientific dramatizations and technopolitics. The final goal is to articulate a foresight, in a pre-vision way, of some of the potential transformations, impacts and modelings of anthropo-synthetic realities in the political and social realms. For contemporary social sciences, the existence of fractioned timeframes, in correspondence with the plurality and asymmetries of political and social communities, implies a challenge to investigate, experiment and understand the expectations, tensions, bets and interactions that revolve around the realms of the technological frontiers and the orientation of futures.

Keywords : Future Technologies; Anthroposynthetic Futures; Scientific-technological Drama; Technological Invention and Innovation; Social Sciences of the Future.

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