In the Anthropocene, with the rise of the technosphere, the Earth System has been transformed into a vast technological network. This system has driven a synchronicity of social phenomena through a homogenised, mono-technological paradigm that is ill-equipped to address current ecological and political instabilities. The dilemma reflects an epistemological and methodological rupture, which requires a shift towards ontological plurality.
A necessary response is to cultivate technodiversity through the notion of cosmotechnics. As defined by philosopher Yuk Hui, cosmotechnics is “the unification of cosmic and moral orders through technological means.” This concept challenges the homogenisation of modern technology by asserting the existence of multiple technics, each composed by distinct cosmologies. For instance, traditional Chinese Gardens, where technological intervention (figure) and the environment (ground) are indistinguishable, offer a different approach from the geometric, systematic territorial governance that characterises Descartes’s mechanical philosophy.
Cultivating diverse cosmotechnics, then, is not a matter of pursuing a singular metric such as efficiency. It is about composing and calibrating our entangled relationships through practices that are inherently plural, situated, and negotiated. This requires an ongoing process of mediation among multiple actors. Confronting the complexity of modes of existence means embracing a new cosmopolitics, in which the cosmos is no longer treated as an object to be governed, but as the condition we act with, and within.