<P>This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of ¿environing media¿, the book advances a deeper understanding of how media processes ¿ defined here as the storage, process, and transmission of data ¿ influence human-Earth relations.</P><P>Virtually all aspects of the interconnected global ecological crisis can be related to the intensification and acceleration of scaling up the human imprint on the planet by technological means. Combining ideas from the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences, <I>Environing Media</I> offers a perspective on how we entered the current geological epoch ¿ the Anthropocene. The ten chapters explore colonial, planetary, and elemental environing media, with cases including indigenous history, ocean monitoring, computational history, climate modeling, environmental history, the air as medium, the bio
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