The 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.

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Contents

Ecologies of Change

Resisting the Disaster: Between Exhaustion and Creation

Micropolitics of Hope

Renegotiating Data Ecologies Through Trees, Soil, and Pigs' Lungs

Ecologies of Disclosure: On Aesthetic Compositions of Technics and Life

The Dominant, the Residual and the Emergent in Archival Imagination

The Contingent and the Predictive. A Response to Lawrence Liang

Hexing the Alien

Critique Matters

Noise and Error in Contemporary Technoculture – An Interview with Peter Krapp

Visual, Ergonomic, and Fragmentary – Krapp’s Vision of the Digital

Making Change. A Report from Bogotá

The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future

Going Underground. An Expanded Materialism of Media Theory

De-Anonymizing Anonymous

Article: Hexing the Alien

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