" 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 "In Incomputable Earth , the diverse contributions of artists, art theorists, scholars, and activists challenge the ideological distortions and exploitative practices of global capitalism. A powerful mix of indignant perspectives ranging from political economy to posthumanism unite in a profound critique of the Anthropocene transformation of the world into an abstract machine. There are many gems of undisciplined brilliance. What unites these imaginative efforts to confront extractive capitalism is their identification of the aspirations for technological control as a pivotal site of analytical innovation." -- Alf Hornborg, Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, Lund University, and author of The Magic of Technology: The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery "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. A salutary contribution to today's discussions of planetarity, well worth replacing Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.
" -- Stefan Helmreich, Professor of Anthropology, Michigan Institute of Technology, USA.