Hybrid Ecologies
Table of Contents
Editors’ Preface
Hybrid Ecologies – An Introduction
Mesology and Ecology
Towards the Rift Valley Crossing (Some Notes, Some Works)
‘Mesopolitics underlines how human and non-human relations have already been thought, way before our noisy concept of the Anthropocene’
Milieu, Mimesis and Mimetism
‘A Way of Being in the World’
Nihilism Upgrade
‘Because you think of yourself as totally integrated in bios and you’ve forgotten that you totally rely on other life forms’
Hurricanes, Popsicles and Plankton: the Hybrid Ecologies of Bodily Natures
The Art of Life in the Age of Mass Extinction
Think Like a Forest – Act Like a Swarm
Toxic Relations: Ecology, Aesthetics (and their Discontents)
Queer Ecologies: Against the Ontologizing of Queerness, for the Development of Queer Collectives!
An Orgy of Algorithms and Other Desires and Distractions: The Drag of Physicality in a #digitalphysical Hybrid Ecology
‘#Sergina is not an avatar, but a Medusa figure’
Hybrid Media Archipelagos in Sondra Perry’s ‘Typhoon Coming On’ and Louis Henderson’s ‘All That is Solid’
Becoming-Environmental: Toward a Critique of Environmentality as Power-Form, World-Form, and Capital-Form
One Minute Material – A Chronological Analysis of Sound Ecologies
Future-Crafting: The Non-humanity of Planetary Computation, or How to Live with Digital Uncertainty
Ecologizing Design
‘The idea that we can design an ecology is something we should be wary of’
Radical Ecological Imaginaries: Turning the Ruins of our Present into the Legacies of the Future
Ecologies of Existence: The Architecture of Collective Equipment
‘I know nothing more violent than a consensus building exercise around the table amongst the “usual suspects”’
The Authors