Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

This realization allows us to begin the core task of a technological ecology: the reintegration of advanced human craft with the nature it sprung from.

If we are to address the wholesale despoliation of the planet, and our growing helplessness in the face of vast computational power, then we must find ways to reconcile our technological prowess and sense of human uniqueness with an earthy sensibility and an attentiveness to the interconnectedness of all things.

As we expand our field of view, we come to realize that everything impacts everything else – and we find meaning in these interrelationships.

In this sense, politics, when organized, is also a kind of technology: the framework of communication and processing which governs everyday interaction and possibility.

the history of technology is largely one of wilful blindness to the context and consequences of its enactment.

The umwelt connotes the particular perspective of a particular organism: its internal model of the world, composed of its knowledge and perceptions.

Technological determinism is the line of thinking which decrees that technological progress is unstoppable.

intelligence might be multiple and relational: that it might take many different forms, and that it might exist between, rather than within, beings of all and diverse kinds.

‘we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.’