Sustainability Beyond Technology Philosophy, Critique, and Implications for Human Organization

Pasi Heikkurinen, Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Helsinki,Toni Ruuska, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki

Pasi Heikkurinen is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Helsinki, Visiting Lecturer in Business and Sustainable Change at the University of Leeds, and Adjunct Professor in Sustainability and Organizations at Aalto University School of Business. He is the co-editor of Strongly Sustainable Societies: Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth (Routledge, 2019) (together with Professor Karl Johan Bonnedahl) and editor of Sustainability and Peaceful Coexistence for the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017). His research has been published in the leading journals in the field of sustainable organizations, including Business Strategy and the Environment; Ecological Economics; Environment and Planning; Journal of Business Ethics; and Organization & Environment.


Toni Ruuska is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Reproduction Revisited: Capitalism, Higher Education and Ecological Crisis (MayFly, 2018). His research has been published in leading journals in the field of sustainable organizations, including Ecological Economics; Philosophy of Management; Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization; Journal of Cleaner Production, and Sustainability.

1. Technology and Sustainability: An Introduction, Toni Ruuska and Pasi Heikkurinen
Part I. Conceptualizing Technology
2. The Question of Technology: From Noise to Reflection, Thomas Wallgren and Niklas Toivakainen
3. Earthing Philosophy of Technology: A Case for Ontological Materialism, Andreas Roos
4. Atechnological Experience Unfolding: Meaning for the Post-Anthropocene, Pasi Heikkurinen
Part II. Confronting Technology
5. Competition Within Technology: A Study on Competitive Thought and Moral Growth, Jani Pulkki and Veli-Matti V?rri
6. Conditions for Alienation: Technological Development and Capital Accumulation, Toni Ruuska
7. What Does Fossil Energy tell us About Technology?, Tere Vad?n
8. Reversing the Industrial Revolution: Theorizing the Distributive Dimensions of Energy Transitions, Alf Hornborg
Part III. Changing Technology
9. An Economy Beyond Instrumental Rationality, Karl Johan Bonnedahl
10. Small, Local, and Low-Tech Firm Firms as Agents of Sustainable Change, Iana Nesterova
11. Creative Reconstruction of the Technological Society: A Path to Sustainability, David Skrbina and Renee Kordie
12. Technology and Sustainability: A Conclusion, Pasi Heikkurinen and Toni Ruuska