Ecosystemic logos. Emerging cartographies for a complex rationality. Interdisciplinary dialogues between science, technology, nature, and culture inshaping horizons of sustainability

Abstract

Ecosystemic logos is proposed as a novel epistemology of highly advanced culture, thus requiring the innovative transdisciplinary conceptualization of knowledge. By developing a ‘transdisciplinary’ perspective that maintains as analytical frameworks the theories of complexity (Morin, 2006), the ecology of knowledge (Santos, 2009) and relational ontologies (Descola, 2013), it is possible to build a conceptual map that goes beyond reductionist logics. The study analyzes knowledge interfaces, revealing methodological strategies to constitute a complex rationality that produces sustainability horizons. The entanglements of different forms of knowledge are criticized, also emphasizing the coproduction and disruption of traditional epistemological divisions. The findings confirm the value of a comprehensive approach that recognizes the multidimensionality of knowledge systems, suggesting an emancipatory reappropriation of the relationships between the human and the non human. The study concludes by affirming the need to find a planetary ethics of co-responsibility and a radical ecosystemic intelligibility.