Environing Media
环境媒介
Authors: Adam Wickberg（亚当·威克伯格）、Johan Gärdebo（约翰·耶德博）
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2022
Pages: 198
About Book:
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.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, Environing Media 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 biosphere, and the Earth system.
Drawing upon a breadth of examples and expertise in history, anthropology, geography, cultural history, science and technology studies, and media studies, the book discovers a novel approach to human-Earth histories that demonstrates how technologies have mediated between humans and environments and in the process contributed to a societal feedback loop between knowing and doing environment, each impacting the other.
Environing Media is a timely addition for scholars and upper-level students in environmental humanities and media studies.
关于书籍
本编辑著作质询了媒介技术在环境形成中的作用，环境既被理解为物理空间，也被理解为关于它们的认识论建构。运用“环境媒介”这一概念，本书推进了对媒介过程——此处定义为数据的存储、处理与传输——如何影响人类－地球关系的更深入理解。相互关联的全球生态危机的几乎所有方面，都可归因于通过技术手段扩大人类在地球上印记的强化与加速。
《环境媒介》融合了人文学科、艺术与人文化社会科学的思想，为我们如何进入当前地质纪元——人类世——提供了一个视角。十个章节探索了殖民的、行星的与元素的环境媒介，案例包括原住民历史、海洋监测、计算史、气候建模、环境史、作为媒介的空气、生物圈与地球系统。
凭借来自历史学、人类学、地理学、文化史、科学技术研究与媒介研究领域的广泛实例与专业知识，本书发现了一种新颖的人类－地球历史研究路径，展示了技术如何在人类与环境之间起到中介作用，并在此过程中促成了一个认知环境与实践环境之间的社会反馈循环，两者相互影响。
《环境媒介》是对环境人文学与媒介研究领域的学者与高年级学生的及时补充。
About Author：
Adam Wickberg is a researcher in the history of media and environment at KTH Stockholm, Sweden, and a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin (MPWIG I), Germany.
Johan Gärdebo is a researcher in the history of climate transition policies and environmental expertise at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK.
关于作者
亚当·威克伯格（Adam Wickberg）是瑞典斯德哥尔摩皇家理工学院媒体与环境史领域的研究员，同时担任德国柏林马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所的访问研究员。他的研究重点在于数字技术与自然环境交织的历史，探讨媒介基础设施如何塑造了我们对生态系统的认知。
约翰·耶德博（Johan Gärdebo）是瑞典乌普萨拉大学研究员，专注于气候转型政策与环境专家知识的历史研究，同时担任英国剑桥大学的访问研究员。他的工作涉及卫星遥感、环境监测技术及其在国际气候政策中的政治应用。
编译：刘鑫
