Synopsis
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).
About the Authors
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.
Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She was the Founding Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies.
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