Authors:
Frederico Salmi (UFRGS)
Lorena Cândido Fleury (UFRGS)
Abstract: The content of this chapter has been inserted into the theme of climate change policies in Brazil at the nexus of digital technologies, in particular the power relations mediated by new artificial climate agents operating in digital structures. These new artificial agents produce hybrid processes of subjectivation between humans and non-humans. In Brazil, this type of study is still rare in the field of Social Sciences (Fleury; Miguel; Taddei, 2019; Salmi; Fleury, 2022a). By intersecting the issues of digital technology and climate change policies from a sociological perspective, we seek a better understanding of how the processes of subjectivation between humans and non-humans are configured and dynamized. Here, scientific platforms based on artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithmic systems (e.g. SEEG, Mapbiomas, Plenamata, JusAmazônia) are understood as artificial climate agents. These agents are not only subjectivities but also new political practices in Brazil. Practices that can, in theory, be emancipatory and reduce social and ecological inequalities.
Link: https://zenodo.org/records/14070942
