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1. ANTIUTILITARISMO

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ROMANO, Onofrio, Giacomo D’Alisa - David Bollier - Rita Calvário - Federico Demaria - Giorgos Kallis - Blake Alcott - Samuel Alexander - Diego Andreucci - Isabelle Anguelovski - Viviana Asara- Denis Bayon - Mauro Bonaiuti - Chris Carlsson - Claudio Cattaneo - Marta Conde - Chiara Corazza - Sergi Cutillas - Marco Deriu - Kristofer Dittmer - Arturo Escobar - Silke Helfrich - Joshua Farley - Mayo Fuster Morell - Erik Gómez-Baggethun - Eduardo Gudynas - Tim Jackson - Nadia Johanisova - Christian Kerschner - Serge Latouche - David Llistar - Sylvia Lorek - Joan Martinez-Alier - Terrence McDonough - Mary Mellor - Barbara Muraca - Daniel O’Neill - Iago Otero Armengol - Philippa Parry - Susan Paulson - Antonella Picchio - Mogobe B. Ramose - Xavier Renou - Onofrio Romano - Juliet Schor - Filka Sekulova - Alevgül H. Sorman - Ruben Suriñach Padilla - Erik Swyngedouw - Gemma Tarafa - Sergio Ulgiati - Brandon J. Unti - Peter A. Victor - Solomon Victus - Mariana Walter, Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis, and Romano, Onofrio

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MAUSS, Degrowth, Anti-utilitarianism
Abstract

Anti-utilitarianism is a school of thought that critiques the hegemony of the epistemological postulates of economics in the humanities and social sciences. Anti-utilitarians assert the crucial importance of the social bond when compared to self-interest. They outline a gift exchange paradigm that aims to overstep two major frameworks of the social sciences: holism and methodological individualism. In 1981, the French sociologist, Alain Caillé, and the Swiss anthropologist, Gérald Berthoud, gave birth to MAUSS – Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences). This brilliant acronym reproduces the surname of the author of The Gift (1924), Marcel Mauss. Most anti-utilitarians reproach Latouche for the choice of the term “degrowth”: it implicitly embeds the alternative into the economic imaginary. They call, instead, for a “political” critique of boundlessness and excess, uprooting the discourse from an ethical level.

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2016

2. Dépense

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ROMANO, Onofrio, Giacomo D’Alisa - David Bollier - Rita Calvário - Federico Demaria - Giorgos Kallis - Blake Alcott - Samuel Alexander - Diego Andreucci - Isabelle Anguelovski - Viviana Asara- Denis Bayon - Mauro Bonaiuti - Chris Carlsson - Claudio Cattaneo - Marta Conde - Chiara Corazza - Sergi Cutillas - Marco Deriu - Kristofer Dittmer - Arturo Escobar - Silke Helfrich - Joshua Farley - Mayo Fuster Morell - Erik Gómez-Baggethun - Eduardo Gudynas - Tim Jackson - Nadia Johanisova - Christian Kerschner - Serge Latouche - David Llistar - Sylvia Lorek - Joan Martinez-Alier - Terrence McDonough - Mary Mellor - Barbara Muraca - Daniel O’Neill - Iago Otero Armengol - Philippa Parry - Susan Paulson - Antonella Picchio - Mogobe B. Ramose - Xavier Renou - Onofrio Romano - Juliet Schor - Filka Sekulova - Alevgül H. Sorman - Ruben Suriñach Padilla - Erik Swyngedouw - Gemma Tarafa - Sergio Ulgiati - Brandon J. Unti - Peter A. Victor - Solomon Victus - Mariana Walter, Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis, and Romano, Onofrio

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Dépense, Energy, Bataille, Degrowth
Abstract

In a wider sense, which includes nature, dépense indicates that share of energy which cannot be employed by living organisms, owing to their physiological limits. This portion continues to circulate aimlessly in the environment up until the point where it extinguishes itself. From an anthropological framework, energy could be redefined as the fuel of action, that is, the fuel that calls us to act. The portion of energy that a living being employs for either sustenance or biological growth, Bataille terms “servile.” In fact, mere biological sustenance can be achieved spending only a miniscule portion of the total amount of available energy. The basic problem relates to the residual energy that exceeds the share devoted to such servile use. Excess energy requires a “sovereign” use: it is necessary to choose a destination for the fuel of action on the basis of the philosophical intent of a political prospect. It is the sovereign employment of excess energy that qualifies us as “humans.” Dépense is a key concept, then, for theorizing a way out of the growth society.

Published
2016

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