Article ID: CBB467220873

Environing Technologies: A Theory of Making Environment (2018)

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The central proposal of this article is that environing technologies shape and structure the way in which nature becomes environment, and as such used, perceived and understood. The argument builds on the understanding that environment is the result of human intervention. Technology is here understood broadly as a terraforming practise, materially and conceptually. We suggest that the compound environing technologies enable us to see environmental change on multiple scales and in new registers. That technologies alter the physical world is not new; our contribution focuses on the conceptual, epistemological, economic and emotional appreciation of systems and aggregates of technologies that is part and parcel of material change. The environing technologies that enable such articulation and comprehension hold potential in the future transformation that our societies need to undergo to overcome the crisis of environment and climate.

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Authors & Contributors
Simone Capozzi
Shana Lee Hirsch
Jarrod Hore
Jedediah Purdy
Oomen, Jeroen
Thaddeus R. Miller
Concepts
Climate change
Technology and environment, relationship
Environmental sciences
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Environmental history
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Modern
17th century
Places
London (England)
United States
Thames River
Columbia River
Hawaii (U.S.)
Sweden
Institutions
International Council for Science
Future Earth. Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production Knowledge-Action Network
ZKM Center for Art and Media
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