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Micro-Landscapes of the AnthropoceneMain MenuMarginal WorldsPlant WorldsAnimal WorldsAmy Huang, Natasha Stavreski and Rose RzepaWatery WorldsInsect WorldsBird-Atmosphere WorldsContributed by Gemma and MerahExtinctionsMarginal WorldsSam, Zach and AlexE-ConceptsAn emergent vocabulary of eco-concepts for the late AnthropoceneSigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d
Wildlife hunting camera
1media/Screenshot at Oct 13 10-52-10_thumb.png2022-10-12T16:59:37-07:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d309862An automatic camera surveils for four-legged creatures. Patiently waiting, once it senses movement it shoots; apprehending its subjects in a blast of flash.plain2022-10-12T17:14:50-07:00Sigi Jöttkandt4115726eb75e75e43252a5cbfc72a780d0304d7d
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12022-10-12T17:05:45-07:00wildlife surveillance6plain2022-10-12T17:48:15-07:00 Continuing with this notion of the sonder-World-Wide-Web, perhaps a clunky complication of a once elegant portmanteau, a dark side of endless interconnection is revealed. Is interconnectedness an ontology or an epistemology? In other words, does understanding the world as an co-contingent web of reciprocity and relationality describe the world as it is, or does it make and remake in a certain image? An issue I plan to examine further is whether claims of the world being ontologically interconnected (the perspective of environmentalists and ecological thinkers) has resulted in a co-optation by capital, cybernetics, and communication technologies to serve anti-ecological interests. Perhaps instead of an ontological claim, ecological thinking opened up an epistemological shift which allowed for the reification and exploitation of its thought.
