MLA Commons | André Francisco Pilon | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/afpilon/activity/ Activity feed for André Francisco Pilon. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 020521ac12371a6906767a68858af5b6 André Francisco Pilon deposited "The Party of the Dead": Join or Die, a Tale that Repeats Itself in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897478/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:41 -0400 In this essay the author discusses the condition of man in today's world, overwhelmed by a huge political, economical and cultural machinery, which entangle people in surreptitious and shrewd ways, encompassing different aspects of the individual and collective project of life. Brutally affected by wars, disasters and scourges, mankind have only…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fd8c36caa48cc45b8045652bdb12bb1 André Francisco Pilon deposited "The Party of the Dead": Join or Die, a Tale that Repeats Itself https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897419/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:51:04 -0400 In this essay the author discusses the condition of man in today's world, overwhelmed by a huge political, economical and cultural machinery, which entangle people in surreptitious and shrewd ways, encompassing different aspects of the individual and collective project of life. Brutally affected by wars, disasters and scourges, mankind have only…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a4ffa44a893b140d8ffada12f6950a2 André Francisco Pilon deposited The dangers of "small science", technological advancement and the role of academia in relation to public policies, https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881579/ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 15:36:49 -0400 Important voices in Science around the world have been warning about the dangers of certain types of research sponsored by business corporations, which promote ‘cutting-edge’ investigations, generally involving large and lucrative financial investments, to attract those seeking rapid advancement in their careers and journalistic prominence,…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd5bc2985e2d1483f85f9a60ff786888 André Francisco Pilon deposited The "Anthropocene": a strange ideology in the service of the status quo in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857785/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:06:46 -0400 The evils that some researchers attribute to the “Anthropocene” are not the responsibility of all humanity; the main culprits, who have the political and economic power to shape the forms of production and consumption and define lifestyles, must be distinguished from the majority of the population, whose power to change things cannot be com…[Read more]

]]> 0 81fb1084b81b7225b1ef8811a89d76d6 André Francisco Pilon deposited The "Anthropocene": a strange ideology in the service of the status quo https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857702/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:39:40 -0400 The evils that some researchers attribute to the “Anthropocene” are not the responsibility of all humanity; the main culprits, who have the political and economic power to shape the forms of production and consumption and define lifestyles, must be distinguished from the majority of the population, whose power to change things cannot be com…[Read more]

]]> 0 50b58223c48521a2712b8ff82771754c André Francisco Pilon deposited Societal Transformations, Politics, Economics, Education, Development, Environment and the State of the World in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848496/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:25:02 -0400 An ecosystem theoretical and practical framework is posited for the evaluation and planning of advocacy, communication, public policies, research and teaching programmers, intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events…[Read more]

]]> 0 59361280c1d78123283e7d95f6ab61f9 André Francisco Pilon deposited Societal Transformations, Politics, Economics, Education, Development, Environment and the State of the World https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848458/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:32:16 -0400 An ecosystem theoretical and practical framework is posited for the evaluation and planning of advocacy, communication, public policies, research and teaching programmers, intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events…[Read more]

]]> 0 4752d195f0f4cef0f85ac5ef8c5ce968 André Francisco Pilon deposited Restoring the Broken Bonds: Mankind’s Survival and the Planet Earth in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831121/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:24:29 -0500 Today’s world is characterized by the increase of environmental degradation due to the predatory exploitation of natural assets, deforestation, desertification and geopolitical hegemonies related to oil and gas, while climate calamities, object of repeated scientific events, become evident and are continuously witnessed by ordinary people. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 65481c652e81aad3e007fc49eb7dfc66 André Francisco Pilon deposited Restoring the Broken Bonds: Mankind’s Survival and the Planet Earth https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1831068/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:54:12 -0500 Today’s world is characterized by the increase of environmental degradation due to the predatory exploitation of natural assets, deforestation, desertification and geopolitical hegemonies related to oil and gas, while climate calamities, object of repeated scientific events, become evident and are continuously witnessed by ordinary people. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad744257842582ba87ee434f0aa78f0d André Francisco Pilon deposited Desertification, a Condition That Involves People, Soil And the Ways of Being in the World https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1780230/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:29:43 -0400 After more than three decades of scientific reports and international meetings, it is clear that there is no consistent progress towards an integrated worldwide approach in the public and private arena to climate change, to food insecurity, and access to non-pollutant fuels.
How to involve and motivate decision-makers in choosing the right paths,…[Read more]

]]> 0 66dffbc7ac7792d3f1d0ddcd170401d9 André Francisco Pilon deposited The Pope, the University, the Elderly and the Flood: Dimensions and Responses to Current Conflicts in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775852/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:23:38 -0400 Comparing the present time with those times in which God decided to extinguish corrupted humanity through the flood, Pope Francis recently recalled that, in those eras, there was still a just man on Earth and, therefore, God reconsidered his decision and helped Noah building an ark to save his creation. The pope added that Noah, due to his…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0bce0365a521e3ff900b29bdfa674fa André Francisco Pilon deposited The Pope, the University, the Elderly and the Flood: Dimensions and Responses to Current Conflicts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775806/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:13:34 -0400 Comparing the present time with those times in which God decided to extinguish corrupted humanity through the flood, Pope Francis recently recalled that, in those eras, there was still a just man on Earth and, therefore, God reconsidered his decision and helped Noah building an ark to save his creation. The pope added that Noah, due to his…[Read more]

]]> 0 36106c07423884e62311b5f747688a85 André Francisco Pilon deposited Science, Freedom, Public Spaces and Specialized Bureaucracies: Where is the Truth? in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765484/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 02:23:38 -0500 Science presupposes the acceptance of discussion and controversy. There is no official truth in science; The search for any conceivable truth is only possible in a context of freedom. Official truths led Giordano Bruno to the stake and Galileo to a false retraction (“eppur si muove’); nevertheless official truths continue to thrive, like und…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc8eb214c7cc55e4d0db4aa16aedc2b2 André Francisco Pilon deposited Science, Freedom, Public Spaces and Specialized Bureaucracies: Where is the Truth? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765426/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:50:36 -0500 Science presupposes the acceptance of discussion and controversy. There is no official truth in science; The search for any conceivable truth is only possible in a context of freedom. Official truths led Giordano Bruno to the stake and Galileo to a false retraction (“eppur si muove’); nevertheless official truths continue to thrive, like und…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bf19faf083303af70b0cd2bda496454 André Francisco Pilon deposited The Pandora's Box A Metaphor for today's World? in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757914/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 02:23:39 -0500 Today, Pandora’s Box continues to be opened, not by unsuspecting people, but by people who provide services in the name of science, politics and economics.
Notwithstanding the risks, government sectors, the mass media, even scholars, abdicated from the public debate regarding the threats posed by the “box”.
They include damages to the health of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b8ac67221b531a69a99fae0232ffdd4 André Francisco Pilon deposited The Pandora's Box A Metaphor for today's World? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757862/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:26:14 -0500 Today, Pandora’s Box continues to be opened, not by unsuspecting people, but by people who provide services in the name of science, politics and economics.
Notwithstanding the risks, government sectors, the mass media, even scholars, abdicated from the public debate regarding the threats posed by the “box”.
They include damages to the health of…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb604a02e04c5bb0e6dd32fa1390455b André Francisco Pilon deposited Governance, Authority and Social Change: an Ecosystem Approach in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749314/ Mon, 16 Aug 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Part of the literature about politics is dedicated to questions of authoritarianism, which, in the vision of the authors, would be a crescent menace to democratic regimes throughout the world. This is the point: democracy, in the paper, is different from what actually happens in the practice and can be even be the opposite. In the so called…[Read more]

]]> 0 5afc8424ca4cc94e83a3d9c7ddb79bb0 André Francisco Pilon deposited Governance, Authority and Social Change: an Ecosystem Approach https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749307/ Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:40:40 -0400 Part of the literature about politics is dedicated to questions of authoritarianism, which, in the vision of the authors, would be a crescent menace to democratic regimes throughout the world. This is the point: democracy, in the paper, is different from what actually happens in the practice and can be even be the opposite. In the so called…[Read more]

]]> 0 74e7599a9fe2f0ca24ff5696fa663c63 André Francisco Pilon deposited Thinking and Acting in a Disrupted World: Governance, Environment and People in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744953/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Political, economic, social and cultural regeneration is an essential condition for the regeneration of natural and built environments. Earth recovery and mankind recovery are complementary aspects and should be dealt with simultaneously, in space and time, for their mutual support. Environmental problems should be defined through an integrated,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fff8843b49ad56a1927b1e3124f6d0dd André Francisco Pilon deposited Thinking and Acting in a Disrupted World: Governance, Environment and People https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744866/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:00:22 -0400 Political, economic, social and cultural regeneration is an essential condition for the regeneration of natural and built environments. Earth recovery and mankind recovery are complementary aspects and should be dealt with simultaneously, in space and time, for their mutual support. Environmental problems should be defined through an integrated,…[Read more]

]]> 0 28bcc7b09b781f0e76a60d0032e7754d André Francisco Pilon deposited Restoring Relationships Between People and the Earth: Environment, Politics and Governance in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732983/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 02:23:38 -0400 Thematic networks, online discussions, information sharing between policy makers, experts and professionals demand a change in concepts that today are taken for granted. The current concepts of “sustainability”, “needs”, “development”, “economy”, and “progress” are controversial and vary according to different cultures and ideologies. Several t…[Read more]

]]> 0 03d2968903c0d33f2a36622baedc10ad André Francisco Pilon deposited Restoring Relationships Between People and the Earth: Environment, Politics and Governance https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732966/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:35:12 -0400 Thematic networks, online discussions, information sharing between policy makers, experts and professionals demand a change in concepts that today are taken for granted. The current concepts of “sustainability”, “needs”, “development”, “economy”, and “progress” are controversial and vary according to different cultures and ideologies. Several t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d614ae9d9815271e3d54134367864d19 André Francisco Pilon created the site Abridged Curriculum Vitae and Selected Publications / André Francisco Pilon https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1732963/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:33:27 -0400 0 456306d591cd504891e7e9fffff546a6 André Francisco Pilon deposited Reframing Relationships Between Humans and the Earth: An Ecosystem Approach https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720617/ Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:06:13 -0500 In view of the overwhelming pressures on the global environment and the need to disrupt the systems that drive them, an ecosystemic theoretical and practical framework is posited for the evaluation and planning of public policies, research and teaching programmes, encompassing four dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social…[Read more]

]]> 0 0279e1e549c86dcdfbf301c04d7656ad André Francisco Pilon deposited Thinking and Acting on the Edge of Chaos: Governance, Environment and People https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1719946/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:56:30 -0500 At the end of a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Paris Agreement completes its 5th birthday (December, 12th 2020); are world leaders taking action to avoid the impending chaos, or they still think that ecocide is an invention of environmentalists or utopian thinkers that abhor the capitalistic system?
Giving up on questionable…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b7b6e4250eb959a0b310e39e4edf093 André Francisco Pilon deposited Thinking and Acting in a Disrupted World: Governance, Environment, People, Inequality and Disease https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1714530/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:49:02 -0400 Given the new global focus on “building back better” from COVID-19, proposals should use the opportunity to ensure that projects meet all sustainability goals. Earth regeneration and people regeneration depend on each other and should be dealt with simultaneously in space and time. “Development” proposals, “technological solutions”, general…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b96b2dc3cc363055dc9f0f38f618a20 André Francisco Pilon deposited Public Profile and Selected Publications https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684524/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:02:11 -0400 Public Profile and Selected Publications / Author: André Francisco Pilon

]]> 0 7e4a0f79abb24ba8b5afd622e9fe1b16 André Francisco Pilon deposited The bubbles or the boiling pot? An ecosystemic approach to culture, environment and quality of life https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684520/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:34:20 -0400 For the diagnosis and prognosis of the problems of quality of life, a multidisciplinary ecosystemic approach encompasses four dimensions of being-in-the-world, as donors and recipients: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Social, cultural and environmental vulnerabilities are understood and dealt with, in different circumstances of…[Read more]

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