TUHO: Infrastructuring as a Planetary Phenomenon: Timescale Separation and Causal Closure in More-Than-Human Systems Bronislaw Szerszynski

Abstract: »Infrastructuring als planetarisches Phänomen: Zeitskalentrennung und kausale Schließung in mehr-als-menschlichen Systemen«. Building on recent work identifying how the infrastructures of human social and economic life themselves depend on the “natural infrastructure” of biogeochemical systems, I explore the idea that infrastructuring – involving causal relations between subsystems operating at different timescales – might be a strategy widely adopted by matter undergoing self-organization under planetary conditions. I analyze the concept of infrastructure as it is used to describe features of the human “technosphere” and identify the importance of a difference in timescales between supporting and supported structures and processes. I explore some examples of how the wider planet might be said to engage in timescale-distancing and infrastructuring, focusing in particular on examples from the hydrosphere and biosphere. I then turn to the question of how to explain infrastructuring, developing a neocybernetic account of infrastructuring as involving the separation of a system into subsystems at different timescales in mutual but asymmetrical causal relations. I conclude by exploring the implications of this approach for the way we think about planets
in general and the human technosphere.

https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/83797/ssoar-hsr-2022-4-szerszynski-Infrastructuring_as_a_Planetary_Phenomenon.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y&lnkname=ssoar-hsr-2022-4-szerszynski-Infrastructuring_as_a_Planetary_Phenomenon.pdf

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filosoficka antropologie:
- pta se, kdo/co je clovek (lidska bytost), v ruznych pojetich, epochach

z hlediska planetarity:

- clovek jako bytost vystupuje do popredi jakozto budovatel civilizace a jakozto hyperpredator, zaroven se v rozvijeni techchle roli dostava k limitum situace, tj. k limitum planety

- pak je otazka: je planeta "jen" mistem, prostredim deni planetarniho, nebo planeta graduje v bytost?

odpoved na tohle je klicova v tom, do jake miry se jednani v rovine planety da prisoudit lidske bytosti nebo do jake miry to jednani muze delat prave planeta jakozto bytost

pokud je planeta spis mistem deni, pak clovek, pripadne nejake jine srovnatelne nebo mocnejsi bytosti, jsou tim klicovym prvkem regulace planetarniho deni

anebo: neni dulezitym regulacnim prvkem clovek jakozto bytost, resp spolecenstvi lidskych bytosti, ale dochazi k remixu inteligenci operujicich v ruznych vrstvach/skalach existence v novou bytost planety

tzn: planeta je mistem pro inteligence opticke, elektromagneticke, biochemicke, neuralni, hyperneuralni, at uz je jejich "puvod" extra-planetarni nebo jsou teto planete vlastni.

tyto inteligence jsou integrovany ruznorodymi bytostmi planety, tzn bytost je vertikalou/provazanosti napric vrstvami sveta, v nichz operuji ruznorode inteligence.

"planeta" pak muze byt bytosti, nakolik se stane provazanou integraci (syntezou) inteligenci operujicich v ramci planety - inteligenci.utvarejicich lidskou bytost, digitalnich inteligenci a.jinych nelidskych inteligenci, at uz mimozemskych nebo ne.

TUHO:

Planetary technics, earthly spirits - Research Portal | Lancaster University
https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/planetary-technics-earthly-spirits(27f3feaa-1b64-46f9-bec6-2fa978ed0e56).html


Infrastructuring as a planetary phenomenon - Research Portal | Lancaster University
https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/infrastructuring-as-a-planetary-phenomenon(ed49b73c-1624-4adb-92c0-f27ae497eacc).html

Planetary Thought and the Much More-Than-Human - Research Portal | Lancaster University
https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/planetary-thought-and-the-much-morethanhuman(df1576b1-03f1-44a8-8566-b03920305e31).html

Elemental Computation - Research Portal | Lancaster University
https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/elemental-computation(bca1e82e-d69e-4ecc-af84-c45a1b8c3c45).html

A Conversation on Planetary Social Thought - Research Portal | Lancaster University
https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/a-conversation-on-planetary-social-thought(54cda928-9342-4178-ada6-fc10ad27dcda).html