Ethics Unknown: Progress, Cosmotechnics, and the Pharmakon
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What happens when technology shapes not just how we act but who we are? This article critiques dominant technological narratives rooted in control and efficiency, advocating instead for pluralistic and relational approaches to progress. It explores alternatives to extractive systems through examples like federated technologies, citizens’ assemblies, and 'radical' models. It stops short of a roadmap for rethinking governance, ethics, and creating the new.