How do we make ruins home? A conversation with Flavia Costa

Abstract

The text presented below shows Flavia Costa's approach to certain critical knots that I presented to her: the challenges of technology in the environmental conflict from the opportunities offered by the Technocene and the articulations between philosophy, society and technology developed in Latin America. By knot I refer to the way in which diverse conflictual networks manage to “meet” under the name of a common conflict, whether material, social or subjective (following a scheme similar to the Guattarian ecosophical one) (Guattari, 1989). This offers the opportunity to perform an interesting movement: unknotting. By unknotting, one seeks to understand the flows that allow the convergence of these conflicts, and thus unravel their underlying dynamics. In this sense, the conversation is presented as a space for exploration and reflection, not so much to resolve, but to analyze and decompose the threads that constitute the following knots: Technocene and a common agenda for Latin American sociotechnics, World Environment, Body and Agency and, finally, Institutions and Future.