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#1 BOOK LAUNCH

INCOMPUTABLE EARTH: TECHNOLOGY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE HYPOTHESIS
with Antonia Majaca (Ed.) in conversation with Monika Halkort

➪ Thu, October 15, 18:00–20:00
➪ VZA7, 3. OG, FLUX I

The event will be held in English.

Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis (Bloomsbury, 2026), edited by Antonia Majaca,
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.

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
Antonia Majaca, Marina Vishmidt, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Arturo Escobar, Michal Osterweil, and Kriti Sharma, Juaniko Moreno, Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood, Sara Garzón, Conrad Moriarty-Cole and James Phillips, Tega Brain, Victor G. García-Castañeda, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Marco Ferrari, and Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Michaela Büsse and Konstantin Mitrokhov, fields harrington and Katherine McKittrick, Luciana Parisi, Margarida Mendes, Mari Bastashevski, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Kevin Walker, Conor McKeown, and Daniela Zyman. Managing Editor: Lola Pfeiffer.

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).



LINK
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350265011

⟿ 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.

⟿ MONIKA HALKORT
is an assistant professor and head of the School for Transformation at Angewandte in Vienna. The School is an inter-university initiative for transdisciplinary research, education, and critical practice, launched in 2023. Her current research focuses on political ecologies of transformation, emphasizing the material entanglements of extractivism, circularity and just transition discourses in post-mining societies.