TY - JOUR

T1 - The Environmentalitarian Situation

T2 - Reflections on the Becoming-Environmental of Thinking, Power, and Capital

AU - Hörl, Erich

PY - 2018/7/1

Y1 - 2018/7/1

N2 - This contribution outlines several modes of becoming-environmental that characterize the development thanks to which environmentality [Umweltlichkeit] has become our condition today: the becoming-environmental of media, of power, of subjectivity, of world, of capital and of thinking. The process of cybernetization initiated around 1900—and the process of computerization since 1950 in particular—culminating in the becoming-environmental of computation, is to be understood as a time of environmentalization, that forces us into the new power/knowledge complex of Environmentality [Environmentalität] and that obliges us, as a line of flight, to rethink environmentality as such beyond its restricted actual forms. Accordingly, the key challenge for a general ecology of media and technology is to advance the critique of Environmentalization by developing an analysis of its restricted forms, first of all of the environmentalitarian Capital-Form, and to break through toward a speculative thinking of the environment and a new environmental image of thought.

AB - This contribution outlines several modes of becoming-environmental that characterize the development thanks to which environmentality [Umweltlichkeit] has become our condition today: the becoming-environmental of media, of power, of subjectivity, of world, of capital and of thinking. The process of cybernetization initiated around 1900—and the process of computerization since 1950 in particular—culminating in the becoming-environmental of computation, is to be understood as a time of environmentalization, that forces us into the new power/knowledge complex of Environmentality [Environmentalität] and that obliges us, as a line of flight, to rethink environmentality as such beyond its restricted actual forms. Accordingly, the key challenge for a general ecology of media and technology is to advance the critique of Environmentalization by developing an analysis of its restricted forms, first of all of the environmentalitarian Capital-Form, and to break through toward a speculative thinking of the environment and a new environmental image of thought.

KW - Digital media

KW - cybernetization

KW - environmentality

KW - techno-ecology

KW - Capital-Form

KW - worlding

KW - cybernetization

KW - environmentality

KW - techno-ecology

KW - Capital-form

KW - worlding

U2 - 10.1215/17432197-6609046

DO - 10.1215/17432197-6609046

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 14

SP - 153

EP - 173

JO - Cultural Politics

JF - Cultural Politics

SN - 1743-2197

IS - 2

ER -