Incomputable Earth : Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis / edited by Antonia Majaca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Majaca, Antonia, editor.

Series:

Theory in the New Humanities.

Theory in the New Humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Technology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis challenges the dominant narrative that positions technological solutions as the primary response to ecological crisis. This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management. Radically interrogating the political epistemology underlying the Anthropocene hypothesis against the backdrop of new regimes of algorithmic classification and prediction, this volume addresses the crucial need to rethink the meaning and inter-relationality of "human," "nature," and "technology." Drawing on feminist science studies, decolonial epistemologies, and historical materialist analysis, the contributors examine how computational frameworks transform Earth's complex relationships into extractable data, perpetuating the very logics that created planetary crisis. Examining new forms of subjectivity and resistance, this timely volume provides both rigorous critique of technoscientific planetary governance and speculative horizons for collective response to climate breakdown-offering a blueprint for reclaiming abstraction from computational capture while centering radically transformed ways of knowing and being human. This book is available open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com It is funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Contents:

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments Series Preface 1. Introduction: The Anthropocene Hypothesis and the Incomputable, Antonia Majaca Part I: The Political Economy of Anthropocene Technologies 2. Externality and Necessity Between Materialism and Ecology, Marina Vishmidt 3. Between the Planet and the Market, Gary Zhexi Zhang 4. The Automaton of the Anthropocene: On Carbosilicon Machines and Cyberfossil Capital, Matteo Pasquinelli 5. Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as an Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data, and Planetary Resources, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler Part II: The Epistemologies of Cosmotechne 6. Black Ecologies: An Opening, an Offering, Imani Jacqueline Brown 7. Pluriversal Horizons: Notes for an Onto-epistemic Reorientation of Technology, Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, and Kriti Sharma 8. Systems Representing Themselves, Juaniko Moreno 9. A Conversation on Art and Cosmotechnics, Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood 10. The Rise of the Coyote: Towards a Socio-Technological Approach to Worldmaking, Sara Garzón Part III: Artificial Earth 11. The Artificial Earth: A Conceptual Morphology, Conrad Moriarty-Cole and James Phillips 12. The Environment Is Not a System, Tega Brain 13. At the Limits of Computational Technocracy, Victor G. García-Castañeda 14. Prologue to the Sky River, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Marco Ferrari, and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng 15. Designed to Disappear: On the Ambiguity of "Nature" in Dutch Coastal Engineering, Michaela Büsse and Konstantin Mitrokhov Part IV: Planetary Scientia 16. Poetics of Science / Dialogic Curiosities / Incomputabilities, Fields Harrington and Katherine McKittrick 17. At the End of Autopoiesis: Nonaxiomatic Patterns and Millions of Incomputable Earths, Luciana Parisi 18. Subaquatic Sensoriums and the Incomputable Ocean, Margarida Mendes 19. Pending Xenophora, Mari Bastashevski Part V: For the End of This World 20. Nature, Estranged from the Idea: Gendered Metaphors and Evolutionary Allegories in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ana Teixeira Pinto 21. The Time Machine Stops, Kevin Walker 22. The Pain of Thinking at Light Speed: Posthuman Play as Response to "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", Conor McKeown 23. Organic Technologies in the Works of Patricia Domíguez, Daniela Zyman Bibliography Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-350-26501-2

OCLC:

1579636298