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Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis challenges the dominant narrative that positions technological solutions as the primary response to ecological crisis. This 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).
Published | 02 Oct 2025 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 512 |
ISBN | 9781350264977 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 60 bw illus |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Series | Theory in the New Humanities |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Incomputable Earth is a vital and timely intervention that powerfully challenges the dominant narratives of techno-solutionism and Anthropocenic inevitability. By unearthing the entangled histories of computation, colonialism, and ecological crisis, this volume opens space for plural, radical imaginaries beyond extractivism -digital or otherwise. It resonates deeply with post-development and degrowth perspectives that reject the depoliticisation of climate and technology discourse. In assembling an inspiring constellation of critical thinkers and artists, the book becomes itself an act of resistance and collective reimagination. This is a necessary call for action related to ecological and epistemic justice: Decolonise digital futures!
Federico Demaria, School of Economics, Universitat de Barcelona; co-editor of Pluriverse and Degrowth
Incomputable Earth is 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. From feminist critiques to decolonial cosmologies, these essays weave a world-ecology of resistance, rejecting the sterile globe of technocratic governance for a democratic Earth of reciprocal relations. Here, the incomputable-epistemological excess, political remainders, generative potentials-ignites a counterhegemonic praxis that honors the messy, mindful and miraculous web of life. A vital call to reclaim abstraction from capital's grip, this book is a manifesto for a revolutionary ecology that dares to imagine millions of incomputable Earths.
Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life
This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.
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