Biodigital technologies and the bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal?

Abstract

the European Green Deal has established the legislative framework for achieving the European Union's climate neutrality by 2050. The Explanatory Memorandum puts the objective in unambiguous terms:The European Green Deal Communication launched a new growth strategy for the EU that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, improving the quality of life of current and future generations, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. The European Green Deal reaffirms the Commission's ambition to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 (European Commission, 2020).The European Green Deal suggests that reaching the target requires coordinated investment in environmentally-friendly technologies, support for industrial innovation, cleaner public and private transport, energy-efficient buildings, decarbonizing the energy sector and 'working with international partners to improve global environmental standards' (European Commission, 2020).In the U.S. Joe Biden's election website supports 'the Biden plan to build a modern, sustainable infrastructure and an equitable clean energy future': At this moment of profound crisis, we have the opportunity to build a more resilient, sustainable economy one that will put the United States on an irreversible path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050. Joe Biden will seize that opportunity and, in the process, create millions of goodpaying jobs that provide workers with the choice to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers (Biden for President, 2020).

Revisiting the Concept of the Edited Collection: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

“…Within this unified ecosystem, we now have opportunities to resolve problems that isolated disciplinary capabilities cannot. This has been demonstrated during the Covid-19 crisis, as a new significance of relationships between the biological and the technological has been revealed, along with 'new knowledge ecologies within a constellation of technoscience' (Peters et al 2021b). Thus, against a background of scientific crises and challenges to resolve, we perceive many sites of promise for social change, including new ecologies in publishing.…”

“…Through 'exploring a philosophy of biodigitalism, as a new paradigm closely linked to bioinformationalism' we can therefore appreciate that 'both involve the mutual interaction and integration of information and biology, which leads into discussion of a biodigital convergence' (Peters et al 2021b). Within this unified ecosystem, we now have opportunities to resolve problems that isolated disciplinary capabilities cannot.…”

“…In late 2020, we launched the Call for Chapters for our new book Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Peters et al 2022). The title contains something of a platform for reflection on the nature of the form of the edited collection, especially in the area of 'bioinformational philosophy', where we want to argue that there are interesting technological convergences among the disciplines that bring to life a new configuration of the postdigital and the biodigital (Peters et al 2021b). We try to advertise this theme in relation to the concept of 'knowledge ecologies' that suggests the disciplinary boundaries are no longer firm or distinct but rather fluid, converging and driven by new biodigital technologies that can change the structure, substance and research methodologies of the fields in question.…”

“…'This heralds a new biopolitics which brings the philosophy of race, class, gender, and intelligence, into a compelling dialog with genomics and information.' (Peters et al 2021b) The second paper, 'Biodigital Technologies and the Bioeconomy: The Global New Green Deal? ', explores the emergence of bioeconomy including policy documents by various countries and organizations such as OECD.…”

Postdigital Marxism and education

“…and education.Biotechnology is now at the point where we can routinely turn living matter into digital code, alter the code, and turn altered code into living matter. This brings about new economic models (Peters et al, 2021a), ethical questions (Johnson et al, 2021, and reaches all the way to the eternal question of human nature (Savin-Baden, 2021). In recent literature, this 'unity between biology, information, and cognitive sciences at a nanoscale' can be found under various names such…”