## Metadata - Author: [[tegab]] - Full Title: Tega Brain – The Environment Is Not a System - Category: #articles - Summary: How do computational technologies shape ecological thought? This paper is concerned with developing a richer understanding of how technologies influence ecological worldviews through examples drawn… - URL: https://researchvalues2018.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/tega-brain-the-environment-is-not-a-system/ ## Highlights - What other methods do we have then to round out ecological thinking and add to the perspectives offered by science and technology? In what ways can we build a capacity for understanding environmental assemblages that can behave *like* systems, but are not systems themselves. How can we break free from the binding reductive metaphors of technological thought? What tactics do we have then to build a richer view of environmental assemblages? What tactics construct more robust understanding of what Bruno Latour calls “matters of concern”? (Latour) As a start, we should look to practices that explore the unforeseen consequences and possibilities of technologies, applying them to reveal the edges of systems, where they break down, what they leave out and how they might be repurposed. These are practices of eccentric engineering, practices that blend scientific and conceptual languages and that reveal technologies as products of ideology in performative and public ways. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12j7s9b3k747g710a4r630p))