Las Dimensiones Ocultas Del Metabolismo Social: Ensayo Fenomenológico Sobre El Ser Y Su Relación Con La Energía
In contemporary scientific language, social metabolism distinguishes the energy exchange that occurs in all human interactions and throughout the human-Nature interface. This exchange consists of processes of energy flows – commonly referred to as transfers of energy-matter, the object of study under physical and biological spheres, as well as energy-spirit transfers, which human understanding recognizes as experience. Experience, in turn, may be derived from our individual conscience and communitarian responsibility, which is also understood as lively experience.* This essay offers two distinct approximations to analyze social metabolism. The approximations herein complement one another under a phenomenological approach to experience. First, the narrative behind the trajectory of ecological economics, as a discipline, originally presented as an alternative path to standard approaches in Economics. Standard or mainstream approaches in Economics often posit arguments based on logical-positivist premises that are in serious need of normative frameworks. Standard approaches in economics fall short of seeking a real compensation to third party victims affected by an externalization of costs, without contemplating the value, in situ and in spirit, of natural capital.
