Technoecologies - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Grayson Bailey, Nathalie Bredella, Nikolaus Hirsch

Contributors Paolo Patelli, Hélène Frichot, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Daniela Rosner, Florian Hoof, Diana Martinez

In terms of knowledge culture, software embeds ideologies, historical biases, and epistemologies of efficiency or control. Hardware, in turn, carries its own logics, constraints, and affordances, and is shaped by place-based knowledge and embodied expertise. As such, software is not just code, and hardware is not just material object. Together, they are living epistemic materials, shaping how we know, build, and dwell in the world. As agentive materials, they actively shape the landscape and the city.

Technoecologies is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University Munich within the context of the 2023–25 Anna Boyksen Fellowship of Nathalie Bredella.

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7 essays

Alexander Hamilton, Architect

Diana Martinez

On a clear day in July of 1778, shortly following the Battle of Monmouth (a crucial pivot point in the Revolutionary War), Alexander Hamilton and General George Washington sat down by the Great Falls of the Passaic River to feast on cold ham, tongue, biscuits, and grog.

The Sysadmin State: On the Politics of Digital Trust and Security

Florian Hoof

In the science fiction television series Silo (2023–current), the Earth's surface has become uninhabitable. Humanity lives in circular underground silos, and survives only because a vast machine provides them with constant supplies of electricity, water, food, and breathable air.

On Apps and Appliqué

Daniela Rosner

When Ashkenazi/Anishinaabe Métis artist Mimi Gellman shows me her recent stitchwork for Traveler 1 and Traveler 2 (2025), she removes a dark, beaded collar, revealing a circular shape.

The Mississippi Colossus

Daniel Cardoso Llach

Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.

Agentic Entanglements: Eel Traps and Fish Fences

Hélène Frichot

Eels traverse subterranean waterways beneath the bitumen streets of Naarm (the Wurundjeri name for the urban region we today call Melbourne), occasionally having to navigate pipes on the way.

Landscapes as Media Infrastructures

Paolo Patelli

Technology is often portrayed as a tool to measure or manage the environment: satellites map deforestation; databases record biodiversity; models predict future climate scenarios.

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Nathalie Bredella, Grayson Bailey, and e-flux Architecture

Technoecologies is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University Munich within the context of the 2023–25 Anna Boyksen Fellowship of Nathalie Bredella. It features contributions by Hélène Frichot, Florian Hoof, Daniel Cardoso Llach, Diana Martinez, Paolo Patelli, and Daniela Rosner.

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Software, Cybernetics, Environment, Epistemology, Landscape

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Diana Martinez Alexander Hamilton, Architect
Florian Hoof The Sysadmin State: On the Politics of Digital Trust and Security
Daniela Rosner On Apps and Appliqué
Daniel Cardoso Llach The Mississippi Colossus
Hélène Frichot Agentic Entanglements: Eel Traps and Fish Fences
Paolo Patelli Landscapes as Media Infrastructures
Nathalie Bredella, Grayson Bailey and e-flux Architecture Editorial

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