Incomputable Earth

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. * Jason W. Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015) * By unearthing the entangled histories of computation, colonialism, and ecological crisis, this volume opens space for plural, radical imaginaries beyond extractivism. This is a necessary call for action related to ecological and epistemic justice: Decolonise digital futures! * Federico Demaria, co-editor of Degrowth (2014) and Pluriverse (2019) Lecturer in Economics, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain * What is the shape of of the Anthropocene? As authors in this compelling collection argue, it is nothing like a grid, nothing like a material motherboard, but is rather something like shape-shifting incompleteness theorem, with materiality overrunning attempts at full epistemological capture. * Stefan Helmreich, Professor of Cultural Anthopology, MIT, USA * A powerful mix of indignant perspectives unite in a profound critique of the transformation of the world into an abstract machine. There are many gems of undisciplined brilliance. * - Alf Hornborg, author of The Magic Technology: The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery (2022) * A crucial set of essays for further theorization of the colonial Anthropocene as an extractive and digital project that produces epistemological and material violence as planetary. This is a vital intervention towards undoing and unthinking how territory can be sustained, returned and regenerated through technological solutions that only push us deeper into the abyss of capitalism’s destructive capacities. * Macarena Gómez-Barris, Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor Chair, Modern Culture and Media Faculty, Brown Arts Institute *