#2 Ecologies of Change
Recent Submissions
- ReviewMicropolitics of HopeGenosko, Gary (2015) , S. 1-4
- ReviewGoing Underground. An Expanded Materialism of Media TheoryOlsson, Jesper (2015) , S. 1-6Review of: Jussi Parikka, A Geology of Media, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- ArticleEcologies of ChangeSpheres Editorial Collective (2015) , S. 1-5The title “ecologies of change” might seem paradoxical to some; to others even tautological. Is ecology synonymous with the lasting and unchanging and thus in urgent need of preservation, to be defended against human interventions and technological change? Or is change inherent to ecologies and thus an ecological mode of thinking puts forward a dynamic, procedural and open way to conceptualise the world? Homeostasis, or the self-regulation of nature presupposes a concept of nature as separate from culture. Thus nature always already is a discursive construct, onto which ideals of regulation and (self) control are projected. There is no easy or singular answer to the question of what media ecology is. The contributions in this issue of spheres touch upon this plurality and are concerned with the concept of (media) ecologies in diverse ways.
- ArticleHexing the Alienda Rimini, Francesca; Barratt, Virginia (2015) , S. 1-22
- ReviewCritique MattersArdner, Rebecca (2015) , S. 1-9
- ReviewDe-Anonymizing AnonymousHeinrichs, Randi (2016) , S. 1-5Review of: Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy. The Many Faces of Anonymous, London/New York, Verso, 2014
- ArticleNoise and Error in Contemporary Technoculture – An Interview with Peter KrappLuersen, Eduardo Harry; Maschke, Guilherme Malo (2015) , S. 1-7The following article is an interview with Peter Krapp (UCI), which was conducted due to his participation as a lecturer in the 16th Week of Image. At the heart of this work, Krapp re-examines information theory and the history of design to address the creative expressions related to noisy phenomena in current forms of human-computer interaction. On our questioning, we approach Krapp to discuss themes such as the ergonomic principles which play a central role in graphical user interfaces infrastructural development, the aestheticization of error in digital culture, and the unstable relationship between noise ratio and technological conditions in digital music production.
- ReviewThe Contingent and the Predictive. A Response to Lawrence LiangRapoport, Robert (2015) , S. 1-6
- ArticleRenegotiating Data Ecologies Through Trees, Soil, and Pigs' LungsBjørnsten, Thomas; Løhmann Stephensen, Jan (2015) , S. 1-15
- ArticleMaking Change. A Report from BogotáMorais dos Santos Bruss, Sara (2015) , S. 1-8
- ArticleThe Dominant, the Residual and the Emergent in Archival ImaginationLiang, Lawrence (2015) , S. 1-14
- ArticleResisting the Disaster: Between Exhaustion and CreationGlowczewski, Barbara (2015) , S. 1-19
- ArticleVisual, Ergonomic, and Fragmentary – Krapp’s Vision of the DigitalLadeira, João Martins (2015) , S. 1-4
- ReviewEcologies of Disclosure: On Aesthetic Compositions of Technics and LifeGeoghegan, Bernard D. (2015) , S. 1-6
- VideoThe Collapse of Change: A View from the FutureFleischman, Luciana; Shwafaty, Beto; Ilich, Fran (2015)The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian scenario where Latin America as a place and imaginary, ceases to exist. Causes and reasons for the extinction of Latin America are uncertain in the story, but generally point to situations of a lock-in, where different socio-technical trajectories reach a tipping point toward collapse but actors and institutions found themselves unable to change. The idea of collapse is very different from the notion of a ‘tipping bomb’ or the prospect of nuclear winter in the 60s, 70s and 80s. The collapse traced in the video is something much deeper. It is something that is already going on at the economic, social and environmental level and cannot be cancelled in a single action. There is no cutting the red cord there. The collapse informing this future is a process with enormous inertia. Indeed, it is a more than human inertia that was triggered by a process called Anthropocene. Perhaps uncertainty about the collapse is related to the inability to change? This is difficult to know from the perspective of an anthropology of the future. There are only remaining fragments. Like the little residues that the sea brings back to the shore, you never find a complete story. That’s why, in the anthropology of the future, reality easily mixes with fiction and becomes myth. Perhaps the saddest finding of the exploration of the future is not the collapse, nor the failure to take alternative pathways, but the utter disappearance of the imagination for change.