Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Climate Leviathan and Behemoth and the future of democracy

Discutono Dario Padovan, Davide Grasso, Alessandro Sciullo, Osman Arrobbio
Introduce Andrea Taffuri

Ciclo di incontri "Seminars for an ecological society" organizzato da Unesco Chair in Sustainable Development, Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario “Crisis”. Master in “Sostenibilità socio-ambientale delle reti agroalimentari”, Rivista "Culture della Sostenibilità", Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società, PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate Change

23 febbraio 2024 ore 17.00
Torino, CLE, Aula 3D440 | Webex

Calendario incontri

This seminar deals with the democracy transformations coping with the so-called ‘Climate Imperative’. Here, ‘Imperative’ carries the double meaning of both a biophysical and socio-political phenomenon. Rapid climate change is transforming the global political economy and altering the fundamental political arrangements of our world, processes we refer to as 'adaptation of the political’. Capitalism is a political system, not only an economic or technical one. Therefore, its modifications or replacements, whatever they may be, will also be political, not just technical.
Climate change poses political challenges for which the current order has no answer. The crisis lies precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appears (Gramsci).