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Digital Environments (Hardcover)
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With the title serving as an umbrella term to distinguish simulated
places from real places, Digital Environments signifies a shift in
how we think about interactions with places and spaces, both real
and simulated. The very idea of digital environments, though,
complicates such distinctions, asking simultaneously (and perhaps
reductively) as to how agents engage networks, and if there can be
such distinctions between virtual and real place, between agents
and networks. For ecocritics, the term brings together two concepts
that are frequently cast as oppositional: digital standing in for
technology/technological and environments often used to represent
nature/wilderness. Thus, reading digital environments as
technological nature asks us to consider not only the relationships
between technologies and natures, but the very idea that there can
be such distinctions, or that there might be technological natures
and natural technologies. In this way, then, the play of
digital/environment exposes complexities in how we theorize both
technology and nature, complexities that often result in the
inevitable exclusivity and polarity between the two ideas. The real
and the simulated, the technological and the natural, all unfold in
flagrant and complex ways that make evident the need for framing
technological theories within the gaze of ecocriticism and the need
for framing ecocritical theories within technological gazes. This
collection considers the possibilities of bringing ecocritical
approaches into conversation with digital environments. The intent
is to initiate a dialogue between two areas of research often
understood as disparate. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
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