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Communal habitability in the Plantationocene: agrifood challenges for a New Era
No full textEl siguiente trabajo tiene como objetivo trazar una problematización de la noción de Antropoceno desde una clave agroalimentaria. En esa búsqueda, apoyado en la perspectiva general que ofrece la Ecología Política del Sur, el artículo adscribe a la formulación crítica de Plantacionoceno a partir del cual estructura una serie de entradas para construir una mirada tanto diacrónica como sincrónica que permita comprender las implicancias profundas de los regímenes alimentarios en tanto forma ecológico-política de primer orden. Para ese objetivo se rastrea, primeramente, desde aportes fundamentalmente antropológicos, rasgos clave de la interrelación entre comunidad y territorio con el alimento como nodo en formas no y pre capitalistas. En ese mapeo se contrastan antecedentes de producción de habitabilidad frente a las narrativas que sitúan a la especie humana como un agente genérico eco-socio-destructivo. En segundo orden, se describe desde un registro socio-histórico, las características principales del régimen de Plantación, en tanto tecnología erosiva de la habitabilidad basada en metabolismos comunales. Se remarca la especificidad espacio-temporal de esta forma de relación inter y trans-especie, y sus efectos inmediatos en términos ambientales, demográficos, alimentarios y onto-políticos. Un siguiente bloque aborda la noción de Plantacionoceno como crítica a la noción de Antropoceno, a partir de aportes provenientes de discusiones del campo de la antropología, la sociología y la ecología política. Desde una profunda crítica colonial, se avanza en vislumbrar las implicancias de largo aliento del régimen de Plantación en tanto base de una grave afectación onto-política que ha desmembrado las tramas entre sujeto-comunidad-territorio como base de la reproducción de la vida, y de forma ampliada a desafiliado a la humanidad de la Tierra con consecuencias extremas. El apartado posterior conecta esas raíces coloniales con los efectos contemporáneos del régimen agroalimentario del capital. Apuntalado en especial por estudios e informes alimentarios, sanitarios y ambientales, se describe un estado de situación de los territorios y cuerpos afectados por modos de producir, distribuir y consumir mercancías alimentarias bajo un sistema global orientado al lucro antes que a la reproducción de la vida. Por último, se concluye con una serie de reflexiones acerca de la centralidad de incorporar la clave del Plantacionoceno a los abordajes de la crisis ecológica y civilizatoria como a la construcción de alternativas en tanto revela la centralidad de la alienación alimentaria como perturbación ecológico-política que debe adquirir relevancia primordial frente a las urgencias que afronta la especie. The following research was conducted by an author located in the Global South, specifically in Argentina, at the southern tip of Latin America. From this geographical perspective, and rooted in the Latin American critical intellectual tradition, this work invites us to understand the continent's colonial past as a material and political print with effects on the present at different spatial scales. The aim is to further contribute to the current scholarship that identifies the Conquest of America as a turningl point in the trajectory of the planet and the human and non-human populations that inhabit it.
In the last couple of decades, the Anthropocene concept has established itself as a key term to describe the profound and speedy mutations taking place within the bio-geo-chemical flows of the Earth. It has been employed to explain the role of human activity in the disruptions that endanger habitability as the species had known it. The notion has been problematized by different critical perspectives for attributing the activities that have affected the biosphere and its cycles to a generic and global agent (the anthropos), thus giving way to fertile dialogues among diverse scientific disciplines. Within that framework, this paper seeks to offer an ecological-political problematization of the Anthropocene notion with respect to the modes of food production, distribution and consumption by drawing on the Plantationocene concept. It argues that food’s mediation of the humanity-Earth relationship is central to the configuration, development and biological and political-cultural modulations of human lineage across millennia. This paper recovers—by relying on the general perspective offered by the Political Ecology of the South as a critical epistemology—the formulation of the Plantationocene to structure a series of sections tracing a diachronic and synchronic view that allow us to understand the deep implications of food regimes as ways of organizing the ecological and political relations of human societies.
To that end, I first select and review key features of the interrelation between subject, community, and territory with food as the core in the context of non-capitalist societal formations. With contributions from the anthropological field, this mapping compares past experiences of habitability production via communal mechanisms and cultivation of socio-bio-diversity vis-à-vis narratives that present the human species as a generic eco-socio-destructive agent. I carry out a complex, non-linear reading of the modes of social organization and its corresponding ways of food provision, taking stock of the contingencies, bifurcations, jumps and cycles in the evolutionary-adaptative processes of lineage. Likewise, the paper identifies, from an anthropological-political perspective, the relations of cooperation existing within human communities and with the non-human webs of life toward food production and understands them as primary forms of the political.
Second, through a socio-historical lens that draws from colonial studies, environmental history, the anthropology of food, among others, I describe the main features of the Plantation regime as an ecological-political technology that erodes and destroys habitability based in communal metabolisms. I provide a brief overview —from the Madeira Island in Northeast Brazil to the Antilles—, to illustrate the spatio-temporal specificity of this inter- and intra- species mode of relation as a great civilizational rift. With data on the flows and exploitation of enslaved labor, the politics surrounding bodies and food territories, the financial rationality, the monoculture logic and environmental degradation, I stress the immediate and unprecedented impacts of colonial sugar plantations as platforms for the development of capital’s food regimes.
Drawing from contributions from anthropology, sociology and political ecology, the next section addresses the Plantationocene notion as a critique of the Anthropocene. A profound colonial critique sheds light on the long-term implications of the Plantation regime as a fundamental basis for the serious onto-political impacts that have led to the dismemberment of the subject-community-territory webs at the basis of the reproduction of life. As these frameworks pose, the Great Plantation has configured on an expanded scale a representative mode of disaffiliation of humanity with respect to the Earth, leaving effective, long-term traces and marks at the intersubjective level. Reflections around the Plantationocene are meant to open a more complex—and at the same time specific—interpretation of the origins, agencies and responsibilities, socio-economic relations and ontological registers situated at the basic structures of the ecological crisis affecting the Earth and the human and non-human communities that inhabit it.
This is followed by a section connecting these colonial roots in the Great Plantation with the contemporary effects of capital’s agrifood regime. Using scientific studies and reports on global food, sanitary, environmental and socio-economic balances by international bodies, I describe the current situation of territories and bodies affected by the modes of production, distribution, and consumption of food products. Stressing the decisive significance of a system of food supply organized for profit, and not for the reproduction of life, I cover the themes of deforestation, water consumption and contamination; large-scale use of pesticides; unhealthy diet, and hunger; labor exploitation and mega-accumulation of profit to draw a general picture of this system. I briefly underscore the central role of the capitalist agrifood regime well into the 21 st century as a primary axis of climate, ecological and collective health disruptions of extreme nature.
Lastly, the above journey allows us to weave a series of reflections on the centrality of incorporating the Plantationocene as a category of critique both for approaching the planetary ecological crisis and for imagining and producing realistic alternatives. On that basis, this work provides theoretical-analytical grounds to grasp the major implications of food alienation understood as a great ecological-political disruption and seeks to enhance the relevance given to agrifood webs as essential political nuclei in the urgencies faced by our species. It concludes that, amid the erosion, destruction and subordination of the political forms of the commons, new ways to underpin the re-communalization of food as a way to rejoin the flows and rhythms between humanity and the Earth need to be found, both at the micro and macro level. In re-weaving a new planetary habitability, the central role of food in human politicity —learned from time immemorial to cultivate and reproduce life—can no longer be overlooked
Monastic Hydraulics in Context: An Archaeological Study Through Written and Graphic Documentation. The Case of the Castilian Female Cistercians
No full textEl estudio del agua en un monasterio requiere la consulta sistemática y organizada de un conjunto amplio de fuentes documentales: el registro arqueológico, la documentación escrita, fuentes gráficas, iconográficas, cartográficas, toponímicas, orales, etc., y, a menudo, buscar detalles en grandes masas de información. En este trabajo se propone una línea metodológica para abordar el análisis integral del elemento hídrico en el ámbito religioso, tomando como ejemplo el Císter femenino castellano. Se hace hincapié en la importancia de las fuentes escritas y gráficas, ofreciendo una guía al investigador y señalando su importancia para el estudio arqueológico del sistema hidráulico.The study of water in a monastic context requires the systematic and organized consultation of a wide range of documentary sources: the archaeological record, written registries, graphic, iconographic, cartographic, toponymic, and oral sources, among others. This often involves searching for specific details within a large amount of information. This paper proposes a methodological framework for conducting a comprehensive analysis of water-related elements within religious contexts, using Castilian female Cistercian monasteries as an example. Emphasis is placed on the value of written and graphic sources, providing researchers with a practical guide and highlighting their relevance for the archaeological study of hydraulic systems
La financiación de crímenes internacionales como forma de complicidad: fundamentos y límites dogmáticos de la atribución causal y normativa de responsabilidad penal
No full textThis article analyzes the international criminal liability of those who finance international crimes, assessing its possible grounding under the legal category of complicity. Focusing on the objective elements (actus reus), it examines whether financing can constitute a causal and substantial contribution in accordance with prevailing normative standards in the international criminal jurisprudence and at the International Criminal Court. It argues that financial support will only be criminally relevant when it creates or exacerbates a legally disapproved risk of the commission of the crime. The paper rejects approaches that eliminate the requirement of causality altogether, and those that treat causality alone as sufficient, without conducting an additional normative assessment. Drawing on landmark cases, comparative jurisprudence, and various doctrinal positions, it advocates for a normativist reading of complicity, incorporating criteria from the theory of objective imputation (or causation in law) and excluding the applicability of the neutral acts doctrine.Este artículo analiza la responsabilidad penal internacional de quienes financian crímenes internacionales, evaluando su posible fundamentación bajo la fi gura de la complicidad. Centrándose en la tipicidad objetiva (actus reus), se examina si la financiación puede constituir una contribución causal y sustancial conforme a los estándares normativos vigentes en la jurisprudencia penal internacional y en la Corte Penal Internacional. Se defiende que la aportación económica sólo será penalmente relevante cuando genere o agrave un riesgo jurídicamente desaprobado de comisión del delito. Se descartan tanto las posturas que prescinden del nexo causal como aquellas que lo consideran suficiente sin un juicio normativo adicional. A partir de casos emblemáticos, jurisprudencia comparada y el estudio de distintas posiciones dogmáticas, se propone una lectura normativista de la complicidad, incorporando criterios de la teoría continental de la imputación objetiva y excluyendo la aplicabilidad de la doctrina de las conductas neutrales
Tratamiento penal de las fugas de información en los Servicios de Inteligencia
No full textThis papper discusses the crimes that punish the behaviors of discovery and revelation of secrets that occurred in the Intelligence Services. It is based on a brief analysis of the regulatory legal framework of the different actors in charge of intelligence in Spain, to deepen later on the criminal behaviors of espionage and revelation of secrets that affect national security and defense.En el presente trabajo se analizan los tipos penales encargados de sancionar aquellas conductas de descubrimiento y revelación de secretos producidas en el seno de los Servicios de Inteligencia. Se parte de un breve estudio del marco jurídico regulador de los distintos actores encargados de la inteligencia en España, para profundizar con posterioridad sobre las conductas delictivas de espionaje y revelación de secretos que afectan a la seguridad y defensa nacional
On teaching and Bologna: some reflections on
No full textLas líneas que siguen son una indagación en las circunstancias que han condicionado y condicionan mi docencia. Una es la circunstancia «alumno»: el cambio en el perfil del alumno. La otra es la circunstancia «Bolonia». A ella dedico el grueso de mi trabajo. Indago, sobre todo, en el cambio metodológico que el llamado «proceso de Bolonia» ha impulsado: el modelo de enseñanza-aprendizaje centrado en el alumno, que tiene por objeto competencias y no solo (o no tanto) conocimientos. Analizo el origen de este modelo y su implantación en nuestro sistema educativo y pongo de manifiesto la contestación que ha tenido. Concluyo con unas preguntas y unas reflexiones personales, guiadas por un propósito: incitar al diálogo sobre cómo enseñar Derecho.The following lines are an inquiry into the circumstances that have conditioned and continue to condition my teaching. One is the «student» circumstance: the change in the student profile. The other is the ‘Bologna’ circumstance. I devote most of my work to this. Above all, I explore the methodological change that the so-called «Bologna proces» has promoted: the student-centred teaching-learning model, which focuses on skills and not only (or not so much) on knowledge. I analyse the origin of this model and its implementation in our education system and highlight the response it has received. I conclude with some questions and personal reflections, guided by one purpose: to encourage dialogue on how to teach law
Explorers of Arabia in the XIX Century: Costumed Pilgrims
No full textThroughout the 19th century, several important scientific and political expeditions passed through or were directed towards the Arabian Peninsula. Though many expedition members were of English origin, others were French and seeking to establish French presence in the region to confront British hegemony. These scientific voyages intensified as a result of the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, and in connection with the construction of the Suez Canal. Consequently, several books were produced that showcased the contemporary reality and the antiquity of Arabia. In this paper, we will reviewsome of the most significant ones, all written by travelers who went to the region as pilgrims.Throughout the 19th century, several important scientific and political expeditions passed through or were directed towards the Arabian Peninsula. Though many expedition members were of English origin, others were French and seeking to establish French presence in the region to confront British hegemony. These scientific voyages intensified as a result of the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, and in connection with the construction of the Suez Canal. Consequently, several books were produced that showcased the contemporary reality and the antiquity of Arabia. In this paper, we will review some of the most significant ones, all written by travelers who went to the region as pilgrims
CAMPOS DE FRESA Y DISCRIMINACIÓN DE GÉNERO: LA MIGRACIÓN CIRCULAR A TRAVÉS DE LA NARRATIVA DE LAS MUJERES MARROQUÍES EN HUELVA
No full textThis paper focuses on the relationship between international migration flows and the feminization of labor in agriculture, specifically in the strawberry sector in Huelva, Spain. It examines a particular recruitment system at origin, which recruits young, rural, Moroccan women with family responsibilities. The study uses qualitative methods to analyze the assumptions behind this recruitment system and to assess whether the selection criteria encourage women to return to their country of origin. This article contributes to the debate on the «ideal model of orderly migration» by questioning its rationale and effects. It provides valuable information for policymakers and raises public awareness of a largely ignored issue, highlighting the gender implications of labor migration and the need for more informed and equitable migration policies.Este trabajo se enfoca en la relación entre los flujos migratorios internacionales y la feminización del trabajo en la agricultura, específicamente en el sector de la fresa en Huelva, España. Se examina un sistema de contratación en origen particular, que recluta a mujeres marroquíes jóvenes, de zonas rurales, con responsabilidades familiares. El estudio utiliza métodos cualitativos para analizar los supuestos detrás de este sistema de contratación y evaluar si los criterios de selección fomentan el retorno de las mujeres a su país de origen. Este artículo contribuye al debate sobre el «modelo ideal de migración ordenada» al cuestionar sus fundamentos y efectos. Proporciona información valiosa para los responsables políticos y crea conciencia pública sobre un tema ampliamente ignorado, destacando las implicaciones de género en la migración laboral y la necesidad de políticas más informadas y equitativas en el ámbito migratorio
Prácticas Punitivas y Agrupamiento Académico: Análisis Multinivel en el Sistema Educativo Chileno
No full textExclusionary punitive discipline practices and ability grouping have been identified as key manifestations of intra-school exclusion and segregation. However, in Chile, there is limited understanding of the relationship between these practices and the influence of individual, family, and school characteristics. This study employs a three-level multilevel analysis using a nationally representative sample to examine this relationship. The results of a logit model revealed that certain individual and family characteristics, such as school suspension and parents\u27 perception of the school as irrelevant, increase the likelihood of exclusion by two to five times. Conversely, being female, having a higher attendance rate, and having parents with high expectations of the school\u27s role reduce these probabilities. School-related factors associated with an increased likelihood of exclusion included a higher proportion of suspended students and immigrant students. A better school climate was the only factor that consistently reduced these probabilities. The findings are discussed in light of cultural habitus, highlighting how differences between family and school expectations influence the experience of student exclusion.Las prácticas de disciplina punitiva excluyente y el agrupamiento por capacidades han sido descritas como manifestaciones clave de la exclusión y segregación intra-escolar. Sin embargo, en Chile, se conoce poco sobre la relación de estas prácticas y la influencia de las características individuales, familiares y escolares. Este estudio emplea un análisis multinivel de tres niveles con una muestra representativa a nivel nacional para examinar dicha relación. Los resultados de un modelo logit mostraron que ciertas características individuales y familiares, como la suspensión escolar y la percepción de los padres que la escuela no es relevante, aumenta de 2 a 5 veces la probabilidad de ser excluidos. Por el contrario, ser mujer, una mayor tasa de asistencia y contar con padres con altas expectativas sobre el papel de la escuela, reducen estas probabilidades. Por su parte, los factores escolares asociados al aumento de esta probabilidad fueron tener una mayor proporción de alumnos suspendidos y de alumnos inmigrantes. Un mejor clima escolar fue el único factor que redujo de forma consistente estas probabilidades. Los resultados se discuten a la luz del habitus cultural, destacando cómo las diferencias entre las expectativas familiares y escolares influyen en la experiencia de exclusión estudiantil
Rethinking constitutional law in the postanthropocentric turn: AI, neurorights, and global governance
No full textEl artículo analiza cómo la irrupción de la inteligencia artificial (IA) y las neurotecnologías (NT) cuestiona las bases del derecho constitucional contemporáneo, núcleo de la tutela de los derechos fundamentales. La pregunta que lo guía es: ¿cómo repensar el constitucionalismo en un escenario donde la agencia no se restringe al sujeto humano, sino que se distribuye entre humanos, tecnologías y ecosistemas? La hipótesis sostiene que no basta con añadir nuevos derechos a marcos antropocéntricos preexistentes, sino que es preciso transformar la gramática constitucional en un entramado relacional y de agencia distribuida, donde la dignidad se conciba como fenómeno intersubjetivo y más-que-humano.
Metodológicamente, se adopta un enfoque crítico-interpretativo que combina teoría constitucional, teoría crítica de las Relaciones Internacionales y estudios posthumanistas. El corpus de análisis se organiza en constelaciones conceptuales —soberanía y plataformas; riesgo y prevención; diseño y garantías; cognición y autonomía— que permiten poner en diálogo tradiciones jurídicas con debates sobre agencia distribuida, cuidado y epistemologías del Sur.
El texto se estructura en tres movimientos. En primer lugar, identifica los límites empíricos, normativos y democráticos del constitucionalismo clásico ante la globalización digital y la expansión de actores privados. En segundo lugar, examina el impacto de la IA y las NT en la protección de derechos fundamentales, a través de casos concretos: el debate sobre la constitucionalización de los neuroderechos en Chile, el sistema RISCANVI en Cataluña y el AI Act europeo. Estos ejemplos permiten visibilizar riesgos como la opacidad algorítmica, la pre-criminalización tecnocientífica y la vigilancia cognitiva, que amenazan garantías procesales y principios democráticos básicos. Finalmente, se propone un marco de constitucionalismo postantropocéntrico, relacional y rizomático, que incorpora la ética del cuidado, el feminismo interseccional y las epistemologías del Sur como principios para gestionar interdependencias sociotécnicas sin abdicar de la tutela de derechos. El artículo aporta cuatro contribuciones principales: (1) visibiliza los límites estructurales del constitucionalismo clásico; (2) introduce la noción de dignidad relacional y el riesgo de humillación algorítmica como pruebas de constitucionalidad; (3) traduce categorías posthumanistas en criterios jurídicos operativos, como la anticipación benigna y la contestabilidad por diseño; y (4) esboza un modelo de soberanía relacional capaz de sostener legitimidad democrática en redes multinivel de gobernanza. En pocas palabras, se argumenta que la complejidad no debe entenderse como una amenaza, sino como la oportunidad para reinventar el constitucionalismo como práctica de cuidado y traducción en un mundo interdependiente.This article examines how the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and neurotechnologies (NT) unsettles the foundations of contemporary constitutional law. The central question is straightforward: how can constitutionalism be rethought when agency is no longer restricted to human subjects but is distributed across humans, technologies, and ecosystems? The paper argues that adding new rights to an anthropocentric and hierarchical framework is insufficient. Instead, constitutionalism should be reconceived as a relational and distributed network that protects dignity as an intersubjective good and organizes democratic legitimacy under conditions of technological interdependence. In this sense, neurorights are not mere individual safeguards added to a pre-existing catalogue; they work as legal mechanisms oriented to preserve cognitive integrity and shared emotional life in highly technologized environments.
The argument unfolds in three movements. First, it maps the limits of classical constitutionalism in the face of the post-anthropocentric turn. Second, it examines how AI and NT reshape the protection of fundamental rights through concrete cases (Chile’s debate of constitutionalization of neurorights, the RISCANVI risk assessment system in Catalonia, and the EU AI Act). Third, it proposes a conceptual framework for a post-anthropocentric constitutionalism grounded in relational dignity, care, and interdependence, with implications for democratic legitimacy and global governance.
The paper has three aims: (1) to identify empirical, normative, and democratic limits of classical constitutionalism in the context of AI and NT; (2) to show how current deployments of AI and NT—especially automated decision-making and cognitive surveillance—challenge core guarantees such as due process, non-discrimination, and presumption of innocence; and (3) to outline an alternative framework in which constitutional law operates as governance of complexity rather than as a device of social control, placing guarantees “upstream” in the design and oversight of socio-technical systems.
Methodologically, the paper follows a critical-interpretive approach. Concepts are treated not as neutral descriptors but as instruments that shape the field they describe. The analysis combines close reading of legal and political theory with selective engagement of science and technology studies and posthumanist literature. It proceeds through iterative comparison across “conceptual constellations” (sovereignty/platforms; risk/prevention; design/guarantees; cognition/autonomy), seeking productive friction rather than neat synthesis. This comparison is framed as a translation practice: on the one hand, notions such as assemblage, distributed agency, and situated knowledge are rendered into an operational legal vocabulary; on the other, legal categories like accountability, publicity, and prohibitions serve as tests for the normative relevance of posthumanist insights. The paper declares its intention to enable debate rather than to close it: the goal is to offer criteria and language that make new problems visible, articulate limits, and suggest feasible directions.
The article is organized into three main sections. The first section traces the legacies and current limits of classical constitutionalism. It highlights three fronts of strain: an empirical limit (loss of territorial control and externalization of decision-making to private infrastructures); a normative limit (anthropocentric categories that exclude non-human agencies and rigidify identities); and a democratic limit (opaque chains of justification that undermine publicity and contestability). The section argues that these limits call for reimagining constitutional law as management of complexity, not for abandoning its role of constraining power.
The second section turns to AI and NT. It analyzes automated decision-making in criminal justice and public administration, focusing on how black-box models and risk scoring can erode due process and hinder meaningful explanation and contestability. It uses RISCANVI in Catalonia as a case of tension between standardization and individualization, as well as a locus where proxies for class or ethnicity may re-import discrimination under technical guise. The section also examines neurotechnologies and the proposal of neurorights, with Chile’s debate of constitutional reform as a salient example. It stresses that cognitive surveillance and predictive profiling risk normalizing “pre-criminalization,” shifting criminal rationality from ex post culpability to ex ante dangerousness. Here, the paper introduces a guiding question that functions as a normative test: can AI humiliate? If dignity is relational, harm includes degradation and misrecognition produced by design choices—stigmatizing labels, infantilizing surveillance, or scoring systems that diminish perceived agency. The paper argues that “algorithmic humiliation” is constitutionally relevant and requires ex ante safeguards (transparency, contestability, targeted prohibitions) and effective ex post remedies. Across these issues, the section shows how inequality operates structurally and warns against a punitive drift that sees individuals but overlooks causal networks.
The third section outlines a framework for constitutionalism as governance of complexity. It contrasts two imaginaries: control (certainty, predictability, clear structures but with rigidity, exclusion, and epistemic violence) and complexity management (flexibility, inclusion, adaptability but with uncertainty and potential manipulation). The article does not reject control wholesale; rather, it argues that in highly interdependent contexts, promises of total certainty become costly illusions. It proposes care as an institutional principle—neither a private virtue nor a gender stereotype—structuring the fair distribution of technological burdens and benefits, the regulation of attention economies, and the protection of cognitive liberty. It also affirms inter-sectional analysis as a condition for effective guarantees and calls for plural, situated knowledge in evaluation processes. Finally, it introduces the idea of a rhizomatic constitutional structure: not a closed hierarchy of sources and competences, but a network of connections that allows multiple routes between principles, procedures, and guarantees. The rhizome does not dissolve normativity; it redistributes it to enable redundancy, circulation, and situated reconfiguration of democratic control.
The paper offers four contributions. First, it makes visible the triad of limits (empirical, normative, democratic) affecting classical constitutionalism under AI/NT conditions. Second, it reframes dignity as a relational quality and introduces “algorithmic humiliation” as a constitutional risk and a practical test for regulatory design. Third, it translates posthumanist insights into actionable legal criteria—benign anticipation, care as an institutional principle, upstream guarantees, and contestability by design—without abandoning constitutional rigor. Fourth, it sketches a rhizomatic architecture for constitutional law capable of coordinating multi-level governance and sustaining democratic legitimacy in socio-technical assemblages. The paper does not aim to deliver final solutions. Its purpose is to open a structured discussion and provide a shared language to navigate concrete conflicts. The approach is conceptual and normative. Its case references are illustrative, chosen to show tensions and opportunities across national, regional, and global levels.
For constitutional law, the main implication is a shift from defending boundaries ex post to governing interdependencies ex ante and throughout the life cycle of systems. For policy, it suggests moving resources from punitive prevention to infrastructural safeguards, public oversight, and accessible remedies. For global governance, it underscores that a post-anthropocentric constitutionalism is not an internal State matter: it is a precondition for any viable, democratic multilateralism in a world shaped by platforms, standards, and opaque infrastructures. Complexity is not the problem—it is part of the solution. Constitutional law should not obsess over control, but learn to translate differences into coexistence without diluting guarantees. Predictive systems must serve freedom, not replace it