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Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis: Theory in the New Humanities

Editat de Antonia Majaca
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 feb 2026
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).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350264977
ISBN-10: 1350264970
Pagini: 512
Ilustrații: 60 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Theory in the New Humanities

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

A blazing intervention into the Anthropocene's mono-epistemic trap. This electrifying collection dismantles the cybernetic fantasies of planetary control, exposing their roots in capital's real abstractions that reduce life to computable units.
By unearthing the entangled histories of computation, colonialism, and ecological crisis, this volume opens space for plural, radical imaginaries beyond extractivism. This is a necessary call for action related to ecological and epistemic justice: Decolonise digital futures!
What is the shape of of the Anthropocene? As authors in this compelling collection argue, it is nothing like a grid, nothing like a material motherboard, but is rather something like shape-shifting incompleteness theorem, with materiality overrunning attempts at full epistemological capture.
A powerful mix of indignant perspectives unite in a profound critique of the transformation of the world into an abstract machine. There are many gems of undisciplined brilliance.
A crucial set of essays for further theorization of the colonial Anthropocene as an extractive and digital project that produces epistemological and material violence as planetary. This is a vital intervention towards undoing and unthinking how territory can be sustained, returned and regenerated through technological solutions that only push us deeper into the abyss of capitalism's destructive capacities.
This extraordinary collection is an invaluable resource for those of us working to articulate the legacies and limits of computation as a technopolitics of command and control.