Toxic Media Ecologies

Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary Crises
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-35860-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media

This edited collection explores strategies of critique for responding to what many commentators now refer to as our current poly-crises.

Today, economic, political, cultural, social, environmental and personal crises increasingly collapse together into situations of toxic shock which intensify repression and process lives into toxic waste. Drawing on the expansive understanding of mediation in the Canadian communication tradition deriving from Harold A. Innis and Marshall McLuhan and on eco-criticism of media environments, Toxic Media Ecologies foregrounds the objective subjectiveness of crises and considers how we as subjects are connected to each other through crises. Critical essays presented in Part One interrogate topics ranging from money and feminist science fiction to the online Alt-Right and racism. Parts Two and Three present theoretical reflections on research-creation engagements with pedagogies, ecology and poetry, as well as design, care-work, performance art and pedagogical games. Overall, this volume elaborates on the thesis that ecological crises are fundamentally historical, political and cultural and presents a novel juxtaposition and comparison between cultural studies and research-creation critical approaches.

Innovative and transdisciplinary in its approach, Toxic Media Ecologies will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental communication and media, environmental humanities, environmental justice, political ecology and media studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mookerjea, Sourayan

Mounsef, Donia

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Toxic Media Ecologies

Sourayan Mookerjea

PART I – The Ghosts of Cultural Studies

1. Toxic Money: Economic Globalization and its Currencies, Edible and Not

Karin Harrasser

2. Surveillance, Sousveillance, & the Crisis of Invisibility: Performing Bodies as ‘Dark Matters’

Donia Mounsef

3. Iturbide's Iguanas: Visual Sovereignty and Narrative Reclamation in the Latin American Indigenous Image

Stephen Cruikshank

4. Being Better after the End: Dramatizing Care-ful Feminist Successor Science in Élisabeth Vonarburg’s The Silent City

Ariel Kroon

5. The Generativity of the Clinamen: A Response to the Pandemic through Serres’ The Birth of Physics

Nicholas Hardy

6. Toxic Intermedia Environments: Fascism Redux and the AI Frontier

Sourayan Mookerjea

PART II – Research-Creation as “Poly-Disciplinamorous”

7. Research-Creation Pedagogies: How to Make Art… Revisited

Natalie Loveless

8. Ecologix: Ecosophic Styling in Toxic Times

Jessie Beier

9. A Provocation from the Open Secret Research SPORE

Rob Jackson

PART III – Case Studies in Research-Creation

10. Design Beyond Anthropos (Talking to Rocks)

Daniel Walker

11. End-Times, Neoliberalism & Love: Layers Fitted to the Earth

Leila Plouffe

12. Pilgrimage: Being in the End Times

Kyle Terrence

13. Perfect Storm! Molecular Media and the Politics of Regeneration

Sourayan Mookerjea

14. Incorporating a Critical Approach to Power Dynamics through Representation in Serious Games on Climate Change

Evalyna Bogdan

15. Energic Pedagogy: Curating Deep Energy Literacy through the Politics of Play

Jordan Kinder

CONCLUSION

Reading Obliquely in Beirut, or Crisis-ness as Necropolitics

Donia Mounsef

Über Autor(innen)

Sourayan Mookerjea is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Donia Mounsef is a Professor of Drama at the University of Alberta, Canada.