Organology and Locality Toward a Theory of Real Smart Home in Technological and Ecological Transition

Abstract

The article critically analyses the twin transition – ecological and technological – promoted by the EU, exposing tensions between technocratic solutions and genuine socio-ecological change. Drawing on Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy, it identifies territory as a key entry point for rethinking the transition. Central is the concept of organology, which clarifies the co-evolution of physiological, technical, and social organs. After discussing Stiegler’s projects: Real Smart Cities and NEST, which promote noodiversity and technodiversity against neoliberal standardization, the article proposes the concept of a Real Smart Home to explore, on a micro level, the smartization dynamics that the French philosopher examined macroscopically in the Smart City. The Real Smart Home thus appears not as a device of control and datafication but a laboratory of care, memory, and plurality, rooting the dual transition in local practices and opening a post-Anthropocene horizon.