ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the challenges posed by approaching environmental changes as an opportunity to do politics with things. It explores a real-world experiment that put into practice a reconceptualisation of the visual/material, a reconceptualisation that was particularly attentive to the embodied, material, and political nature of representations. The chapter simultaneously grapples with concerns that have occupied scholars working on issues relating to the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn', and it does so in a spirit of diffraction. To do politics with things things have to be materially present in the political process, something they often achieve especially in environmental politics in form of scientific visual representations. Materialities and visualities, are always part made through the multiple collectives they co-produce in their intra-actions. To make more explicit what a political, epistemological and ontological shift from matters of fact to matters of concern entails, the chapter briefly illustrates Loweswater's blue-green algae, scientifically known as cyanobacteria.
