Incomputable Earth

Antonia Majaca is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where her research within the ERC-funded HealthXCross project examines microbiome technoscience through decolonial feminist and historical materialist analysis. She founded and coordinates the research cluster "Radical Epistemologies: Political Ecology and Transversal Praxis" at the NICHE Institute for Environmental Humanities, Ca' Foscari. She was Principal Investigator of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) artistic research project "The Incomputable," from which this volume emerged. She has directed research, curatorial, discursive, and publishing projects for Documenta 14, the Venice Biennale, Berlin Biennale, and HKW Berlin.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsSeries Preface1. Introduction: The Anthropocene Hypothesis and the Incomputable, Antonia MajacaPart I: The Political Economy of Anthropocene Technologies2. Externality and Necessity Between Materialism and Ecology, Marina Vishmidt3. Between the Planet and the Market, Gary Zhexi Zhang4. The Automaton of the Anthropocene: On Carbosilicon Machines and Cyberfossil Capital, Matteo Pasquinelli5. Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo as an Anatomical Map of Human Labor, Data, and Planetary Resources, Kate Crawford and Vladan JolerPart II: The Epistemologies of Cosmotechne6. Black Ecologies: An Opening, an Offering, Imani Jacqueline Brown7. Pluriversal Horizons: Notes for an Onto-epistemic Reorientation of Technology, Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, and Kriti Sharma8. Systems Representing Themselves, Juaniko Moreno9. A Conversation on Art and Cosmotechnics, Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood10. The Rise of the Coyote: Towards a Socio-Technological Approach to Worldmaking, Sara GarzónPart III: Artificial Earth11. The Artificial Earth: A Conceptual Morphology, Conrad Moriarty-Cole and James Phillips12. The Environment Is Not a System, Tega Brain13. At the Limits of Computational Technocracy, Victor G. García-Castañeda14. Prologue to the Sky River, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Marco Ferrari, and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng15. Designed to Disappear: On the Ambiguity of “Nature” in Dutch Coastal Engineering, Michaela Büsse and Konstantin MitrokhovPart IV: Planetary Scientia16. 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 Parisi18. Subaquatic Sensoriums and the Incomputable Ocean, Margarida Mendes19. Pending Xenophora, Mari BastashevskiPart V: For the End of This World20. Nature, Estranged from the Idea: Gendered Metaphors and Evolutionary Allegories in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ana Teixeira Pinto21. The Time Machine Stops, Kevin Walker22. The Pain of Thinking at Light Speed: Posthuman Play as Response to “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”, Conor McKeown23. Organic Technologies in the Works of Patricia Domíguez, Daniela ZymanBibliographyIndex

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.