Automation,animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern intoday's society of humans and machines. This volume describes the socialconsequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life andautomation of technology.
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Introduction: Un/Civil engineering / Thomas Pringle
1. Animation of the technical and the quest for beauty / Gertrud Koch
2. For a neganthropology of automatic society / Bernard Stiegler
3. The ecosystem is an apparatus: from machinic ecology to the politics of resilience / Thomas Pringle.
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