Glitches in the technonatural present

Searle, Adam; Turnbull, Jonathon; Hartman Davies, Oscar; Poerting, Julia; Chasseray-Peraldi, Pauline; Dodsworth, Jennifer; Anderson-Elliott, Henry

Abstract

Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined elements of the ‘technonatural present’, which pose varied challenges and openings for the future of geographical thought and praxis beyond the delineated sub-disciplinary concerns of more-than-human and digital geographies. In this commentary, we draw attention to the inseparability, now and into the future, of geographical thought and praxis from digital mediation. This mediation is also central to forms of encounter, exploitation, and governance shaping human-nonhuman relations. Within this complex nexus of humans, nonhumans, environments, and technologies, it is crucial to critically examine how nature is made (mediated) and remade (remediated), by whom, for whom, and with whom. We call for research that affirmatively centres the potentials for progressive digitally-mediated environmentalisms, drawing from Agnieszka Leszczynski and Sarah Elwood's work on ‘glitch epistemologies’. To conclude, we point to a series of themes and questions that geographers might usefully engage with as they navigate digitally (re)mediated catastrophic times.

Citation

Searle, A., Turnbull, J., Hartman Davies, O., Poerting, J., Chasseray-Peraldi, P., Dodsworth, J., & Anderson-Elliott, H. (2024). Glitches in the technonatural present. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2), 342-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231174633

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2023
• Online Publication Date: May 15, 2023
• Publication Date: 2024-07
• Deposit Date: Jul 15, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 18, 2023
• Journal: Dialogues in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 2043-8206
• Electronic ISSN: 2043-8214
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 342-346
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231174633
• Keywords: more-than-human geography, digital geographies, Digital ecologies, glitch, technonatural present
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/23005018
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20438206231174633