86. Agricultural technologies as living machines: toward a biomimetic conceptualization of technology

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Abstract

In this paper, we raise the question whether we can conceptualize precision livestock farming (PLF) in biomimetic terms as ‘living machines’, which are no longer characterized by the exploitation, domination, instrumentalisation and commodification of nature, but instead, are embedded in and in accordance with the natural environment. The concept of biomimicry will be used to conceptualize PLF technologies as ecological innovations which are embedded in and in accordance with the natural environment. Such a biomimetic approach of PLF could take advantage of its potential advantages like mitigating climate change, while at the same time avoiding the ethical issues related to the industrialization of the agricultural sector by traditional PLF technologies.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFood futures: ethics, science and culture
EditorsI.A.S. Olsson, S.M. Araújo, M.F. Vieira
PublisherWageningen Academic Publishers
Chapter86
Pages562-568
ISBN (Electronic)9789086868346
ISBN (Print)9789086862887
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Sept 2016
EventEurSafe 2016 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 29 Sept 20161 Oct 2016

Conference/symposium

Conference/symposiumEurSafe 2016
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period29/09/161/10/16

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