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Historical-materialistic critique of common explanations of the social relationship to nature in capitalism brings to light idealistic, culturalistic and politicistic short-cuts. A critical theory of social nature relations based on Marx's major work Das Kapital shows that the laws of capitalist society necessarily lead to systematic destruction of nature. The capitalist mode of production is incompatible with sustainable development.

nature --- ecology --- social theory --- capitalism --- criticism --- Natur/Ökologie --- Gesellschaftstheorie --- Kapitalismus(kritik)

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Sustainability has become a leading principle of social change that combines different objectives – be it green capitalism based on ecological modernization or a socio-ecological transformation that could ring in a post-capitalist era. The social dimensions of sustainability as well as the paradoxes relating to a sustainable development in global capitalism are examined in this programmatic text by Sighard Neckel and his research team in Hamburg. Basic sociological perspectives of sustainability are the subject, as are prospects of concrete fields of a critical-reflexive social research on the social conflicts centering around sustainability.

ökologische modernisierung --- sociology --- reflexive sozialforschung --- ecology --- society --- soziologie --- postcapitalism --- soziologische theorie --- reflexive social research --- umweltsoziologie --- nachhaltigkeit --- natur --- ecological modernization --- environmental sociology --- postkapitalismus --- gesellschaft --- nature --- sustainability --- sociological theory --- ökologie

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The rise of the term "environment" to describe the present marks the influence that reflection on environmental relations and the possibility of engineering artificial environments have gained since the mid-nineteenth century. In closed artificial worlds such as space stations or artificial ecosystems, the entanglement of the "environment" with the surrounding organisms becomes the subject of a biopolitics that today opens up new spaces in autonomous environmental control technologies. Florian Sprenger pursues this transformation of ecological environmental knowledge with the aim of better understanding current technologies, making the term understandable and highlighting the biopolitical dimension of each ecology.

Media --- Technology --- Ecology --- Environment --- Biopolitics --- Surrounding --- Artificiality --- Organism --- Environmental Knowledge --- Science --- Media Theory --- History of Science --- Media Studies --- Medien --- Technik --- Ökologie --- Environment --- Biopolitik --- Umgebung --- Künstlichkeit --- Organismus --- Autonome Technologie --- Umgebungswissen --- Wissenschaft --- Medientheorie --- Wissenschaftsgeschichte --- Medienwissenschaft

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Across the world, more and more DIY initiatives are cropping up, in which a diversity of matters and problems are being collectively dealt with. In these collaborative contexts – located away from the market and the state - an understanding of living together and urbanity based around democracy is tested out, and at the same time, ecologically and socially responsible solutions are being sought for fundamental forms of provision of food, of energy, and for making all manner of technology accessible. In the process, fascinating new forms of collective production, repairing and swapping arise which challenge the industrial logic of the 20th century, even turn them on their head. This book is dedicated to the visionary power of these promising innovative practices, and at the same time, provides a societal categorisation of the new `laboratories' of societal transformation. With photographs by Falk Messerschmidt.

reparieren --- sharing --- share economy --- partizipation --- cultural studies --- sociology --- collaboration --- open source --- do it yourself --- real democracy --- eigenarbeit --- ecology --- open hardware --- urban studies --- 4th industrial revolution --- stadt --- soziologie --- new urbanism --- open design --- kollaboration --- kulturwissenschaft --- neuer urbanismus --- post-growth --- 4. industrielle revelution --- city --- commons --- degrowth --- selbermachen --- makerspaces --- makermovement --- postwachstum --- fablabs --- repair movement --- wachstumsrücknahme --- zivilgesellschaft --- echte demokratie --- ökologie --- civil society --- participation