Accelerazione e governance della tecnoscienza

The critical theory of acceleration provides a general framework for address-
ing the governance of technoscience in democratic societies in terms of "politics of
time", and to compare the different theoretical approaches aimed at steering their non -
linear dynamic towards socially and ethically desirable outcomes. To this aim, I will
first introduce to the semantic ambiguity of the notion of governance, born as neolib -
eral response to the acceleration and increased complexity of globalized society (gov-
ernance 1.0) and lately largely reframed as democratic and participatory governance
(governance 2.0). I will then present a case of governance of technoscientific innova -
tion in conditions of extreme urgency, the accelerated development of pandemic vac-
cines, as an example of the ambiguity between the two meanings. Then I will focus on
the problem of the urgency of decision under the current paradigm of 2.0 governance
of technoscientific innovation, which, even in non-emergency conditions, is affected by
the temporal paradox highlighted by the Collingridge dilemma, in order to examine
the different coping strategies proposed in the recent literature, spanning from antici-
patory to adaptive approaches.