Entropie, ecologie, economie nell’era ‘entropocene’: verso un modello di crescita anti-entropico

Abstract

In his latest works, Bernard Stiegler describes the Anthropocene as an Entropocene, that is, as a process of increasing entropy at different levels (thermodynamic level, biological level and informational or psycho-social level). This proposition invites us to rethink the contemporary ecological crisis as a triple problem of environmental ecology, mental ecology and social ecology, as proposed by Félix Guattari at the end of the twentieth century. In order to answer to this entropic ecological crisis, a double energetic transition seems necessary, which requires the conservation, cultivation and care of physical, chemical and mineral resources, but also the conservation, cultivation and care of psychic, social and libidinal resources. In order to conceive such a transition towards an ‘anti-entropic growth’, this article attempts to articulate the works of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Bernard Stiegler, who respectively insisted on the finite and fragile dimension of natural energies and libidinal energies, and who tried to rethink the role of nature and desire in the economic process, in order to intensify and value biodiversity and noodiversity.