ABSTRACT
This chapter provides critical responses to the contemporary challenges of environmental degradation, refugee crises and digital technologisation by asking how the boundary is drawn between the technological and the ecological, and how these distinctions are informed by implicit and explicit investments in the exceptional status of the human condition. It shares the view that technology is not simply a neutral tool for management and advancement, any more than ecology is merely the environment, whose harmonious organisation becomes disturbed by human enterprises and technological interventions. The chapter focuses on two themes that are taken up within the special issue, namely ethicality and care, and affect and the senses. One of the central concerns regarding the relation between technology, environment, and society is how to challenge the practices of technocapitalization by critically engaging with rather than simply opposing technological developments.
