Hybrid Ecologies

The notion of ecology not only figures centrally in current debates around climate change, but also traverses contemporary discourses in the arts, the humanities, and the social and techno sciences. In its present reformulation it refers to the multi-layered and multi-dimensional nexus of reciprocities between living processes, technological and media practices, i.e. to the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents. The book Hybrid Ecologies understands ecology as an ambivalent notion, whose multivalence opens up new fields of action and yet, thanks precisely to this openness and vast applicability, at the same time raises questions not least concerning its genealogy. The interdisciplinary contributions seek to explore the political and social effects that a rethinking of community in ecological and thus also in biopolitical terms may provoke, and which consequences the contemporary notion of ecology might entail for artistic and design practices in particular. The presen t publication is the result of the fifth annual program of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies, which was conceived in cooperation with the Chair of Philosophy | Aesthetic Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

9 - 11 Editors' Preface (Marietta Kesting, Maria Muhle, Jenny Nachtigall, Susanne Witzgall)13 - 30 Hybrid Ecologies - An Introduction (Susanne Witzgall)31 - 41 Mesology and Ecology (Ferhat Taylan)42 - 52 Towards the Rift Valley Crossing (Some Notes, Some Works) (Simon Starling)53 - 58 'Mesopolitics underlines how human and non-human relations have already been thought, way before our noisy concept of the Anthropocene' (Simon Starling, Ferhat Taylan)59 - 72 Milieu, Mimesis and Mimetism (Maria Muhle)73 - 88 'A Way of Being in the World' (Susanne Witzgall)89 - 98 Nihilism Upgrade (Timothy Morton)99 - 110 'Because you think of yourself as totally integrated in bios and you've forgotten that you totally rely on other life forms' (Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton)111 - 123 Hurricanes, Popsicles and Plankton: the Hybrid Ecologies of Bodily Natures (Stacy Alaimo)124 - 134 The Art of Life in the Age of Mass Extinction (John Jordan)135 - 142 Think Like a Forest - Act Like a Swarm143 - 152 Tox ic Relations: Ecology, Aesthetics (and their Discontents) (Jenny Nachtigall)153 - 163 Queer Ecologies: Against the Ontologizing of Queerness, for the Development of Queer Collectives! (Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky)164 - 172 An Orgy of Algorithms and Other Desires and Distractions: The Drag of Physicality in a #digitalphysical Hybrid Ecology (Elly Clarke)173 - 180 '#Sergina is not an avatar, but a Medusa figure' (Elly Clarke, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky)181 - 196 Hybrid Media Archipelagos in Sondra Perry's 'Typhoon Coming On' and Louis Henderson's 'All That is Solid' (Marietta Kesting)197 - 208 Becoming-Environmental: Toward a Critique of Environmentality as Power-Form, World-Form, and Capital-Form (Erich Hörl)209 - 215 One Minute Material - A Chronological Analysis of Sound Ecologies (BJ Nilsen)216 - 227 Future-Crafting: The Non-humanity of Planetary Computation, or How to Live with Digital Uncertainty (Betti Marenko)228 - 240 Ecologizing Design (Martín Ávila)241 - 249 'The idea that we ca n design an ecology is something we should be wary of' (Betti Marenko, Martín Ávila)251 - 262 Radical Ecological Imaginaries: Turning the Ruins of our Present into the Legacies of the Future (Maria Kaika)263 - 270 Ecologies of Existence: The Architecture of Collective Equipment (Godofredo Pereira)271 - 277 'I know nothing more violent than a consensus building exercise around the table amongst the "usual suspects"' (Maria Kaika, Godofredo Pereira)279 - 286 The Authors