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2023
Navigating the biocosmos: Cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia
Navigating the biocosmos: Cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia
Abstract (English)
One important insight from complexity science is that the future is open, and that this
openness is an opportunity for us to participate in its shaping. The bioeconomy has been part of this
process of “future-making”. But instead of a fertile ecosystem of imagined futures, a dry monoculture
of ideas seems to dominate the landscape, promising salvation through technology. With this article,
weintend to contribute to regenerating the ecological foundations of the bioeconomy. What would
it entail if we were to merge with the biosphere instead of machines? To lay the cornerstones of
a bioeconomic utopia, we explore the basic principles of self-organization that underlie biological,
ecological, social, and psychological processes alike. All these are self-assembling and self-regulating
elastic structures that exist at the edge of chaos and order. We then revisit the Promethean problem
that lies at the foundation of bioeconomic thought and discuss how, during industrialization, the
principles of spontaneous self-organization were replaced by the linear processes of the assembly
line. We ultimately propose a bioeconomy based on human needs with the household as the basic
unit: the biocosmos. The biocosmos is an agroecological habitat system of irreducible complexity, a
newhumanniche embedded into the local ecosystem.
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Land, 12 (2023), 6, 1212.
https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061212.
ISSN: 2073-445X
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@article{Onyeali2023-06-11,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16639},
author = {Onyeali, Wolfgang and Schlaile, Michael P. and Winkler, Bastian et al.},
title = {Navigating the biocosmos: Cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia},
journal = {Land},
year = {2023-06-11},
volume = {12},
}