Looking afresh at the Anthropocene, this open access volume investigates how the capitalist engineering of the earth is not only accelerating, but is doing so in parallel with the expansion of digital technological systems, including so-called ''artificial intelligence''. Against the backdrop of new regimes of data positivism, algorithmic classification and prediction, and even the emergence of unexpected forms of collective intelligence, addresses the crucial need to rethink the meaning and inter-relationality of such terms as ''extraction'', ''computation'', and ''planetarity''. Beyond the theory, it also asks what cognitive and political capacities we need to grapple with the implications of this parallel intensification of datafication and the Anthropocene. Examining new forms of subjectivity and resistance, this timely volume tackles a range of urgent topics, from the racialized politics of climate change to feminist ecologies and planetary financialization. In an original, hybrid format that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of these debates, Incomputable Earth is made up of scholarly essays, striking artistic contributions, and a glossary of emerging concepts in the humanities. Bringing together international scholars, artists, grassroots collectives, and environmental organisations, this is a vital intervention into the past, present, and future of computation and its inescapable impact upon our social, political, and planetary life.This book emerges from the artistic research project "The Incomputable-Art in the Age of Algorithms," instigated at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, and funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, and the Styrian Provincial Government Department of Economy, Tourism, Science and Research. 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). ...

Vorwort
Investigating the link between environmental breakdown and the increasing development of digital technologies, this is a vital intervention into what this means for our social, political, and planetary future.

Autorentext
Antonia Majaca is a researcher, curator and principal investigator for the research project 'Incomputable' (2019-2021) at the IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, Austria.

Inhalt

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
   

5. Black Ecologies: An Opening, an Offering, Imani Jacqueline Brown

6. Pluriversal Horizons: Notes for an Onto-epistemic Reorientation of Technology, Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, and Kriti Sharma

7. 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
       

8. The Environment Is Not a System, Tega Brain

9. At the Limits of Computational Technocracy, Victor G. García-Casta*ñ*eda

10. Prologue to the Sky River, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Marco Ferrari, and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng

11. Designed to Disappear: On the Ambiguity of "Nature" in Dutch Coastal Engineering, Michaela Büsse and Konstantin Mitrokhov

    Part IV: Planetary Scientia

12. 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

13. Subaquatic Sensoriums and the Incomputable Ocean, Margarida Mendes

14. Pending Xenophora, Mari Bastashevski

    Part V: For the End of This World

15. Nature, Estranged from the Idea: Gendered Metaphors and Evolutionary Allegories in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ana Teixeira Pinto

16. The Time Machine Stops, Kevin Walker

17. The Pain of Thinking at Light Speed: Posthuman Play as Response to "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", Conor McKeown

18. Organic Technologies in the Works of Patricia Domíguez, Daniela Zyman

    Bibliography
    Index