Process Engineering Renewal 2

Appendix 1Process Engineering in the French National Strategy and in “Horizon Europe”

With the promotion of engineers and the development of abstract work, nature itself becomes a labor force. It loses its sensitive qualities and living properties to be considered only as a combination of forces and movements; in other words, it is no longer defined in relation to the human subject perceiving and acting. (Chrétien 1991)

The French reaction is to protect the acquis when it is already obsolete. (Brunet-Labbez 2013)

The sole anthropological type created by capitalism, the one that was indispensable for its establishment at the outset, was the Schumpeter-style entrepreneur: someone who cares passionately about the creation of this new historical institution that is the business enterprise and who strives constantly to enlarge it through the introduction of new technical complexes and new methods of market penetration. (Castoriadis 1996)

In any case, one fact remains: our representations of the unpredictability of natural phenomena are changing. The classical image of science is losing some of its deterministic nimbus. (von Wright 1993)

Humanity groans, half crushed under the weight of the progress it has made. She doesn’t know enough that her future depends on her. It is up to her first to see if she wants to continue to live. (Bergson 1935)

The notion of sustainable development is […] representative of a field of tension whose main references are the logic of the stakeholders, ...