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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).
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | Mar 05 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 512 |
| ISBN | 9781350264977 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 60 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Theory in the New Humanities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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