The Technological Fervor of Eco-Constructivism

Abstract

After developing the conception of the anaturalist drive prominent behind a myriad of constructive, postenvironmental discourses in the West, Neyrat begins to provide a definition for the discourses and types of thought that would fall under this rubric of eco-constructivism. During the course of this chapter he outlines the similarities between eco-constructivism and geo-constructivism and highlights the important differences that distinguish them from each other. After providing a nice summary of the currents of the movement known as Accelerationism and the Accelerationist Manifesto as well as currents in transhumanism, the chapter ends by calling into question what all these various discourses falling into positions of ecomodernism or postenvironmentalism seem to blindly adhere to: an ecology that wholly embraces technological advancement and its fervor for continual construction.