The post-normal science approach (PNS) has played a major role in the conceptualization of late modern techno-scientific challenges, at both academic and policy level. Its topicality is assessed by comparing the epistemic and political conditions of its emergence, related to the rise of theories of complexity and disequilibrium of both biophysical and social systems, with the present ones. It is found that the diagnostic component of PNS meets with growing confirmations, while its recipe for a new, inclusive social contract for science is challenged by a governmental rationality that turns to opposite, reactionary, ends its very underpinnings. The Sars-CoV-2 pandemics and the post-truth debate provide evidence in this regard. The task for PNS scholarship is to explore new routes, suited to the current and prospective conditions of science and politics.

L’approccio della scienza post-normale (PNS) ha svolto un ruolo importante nella concettualizzazione delle sfide tecno-scientifiche della tarda modernità, non solo a livello accademico ma anche di policy. È ancora attuale? Per rispondere provo innanzitutto a fare una genealogia della PNS, per poi riflettere su come il mondo attuale differisce da quello in cui è nata. Nei limiti dello spazio a disposizione cercherò di mostrare che la PNS si trova oggi in una posizione dilemmatica: dal lato diagnostico trova conferme sempre più forti; dal lato terapeutico la situazione che si è venuta a creare richiede un ripensamento.

Scienza post-normale e governamentalità neoliberale

Pellizzoni, Luigi
2022

Abstract

The post-normal science approach (PNS) has played a major role in the conceptualization of late modern techno-scientific challenges, at both academic and policy level. Its topicality is assessed by comparing the epistemic and political conditions of its emergence, related to the rise of theories of complexity and disequilibrium of both biophysical and social systems, with the present ones. It is found that the diagnostic component of PNS meets with growing confirmations, while its recipe for a new, inclusive social contract for science is challenged by a governmental rationality that turns to opposite, reactionary, ends its very underpinnings. The Sars-CoV-2 pandemics and the post-truth debate provide evidence in this regard. The task for PNS scholarship is to explore new routes, suited to the current and prospective conditions of science and politics.
2022
Settore SPS/10 - Sociologia dell'Ambiente e del Territorio
Scienza, politica e società : l’approccio post-normale in teoria e nelle pratiche
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Neoliberal governmentality; post-truth; Anthropocene; pandemics; governamentalità neoliberale; post-truth; crisi pandemiche
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