.top-header{ transform: scale(0.5); transform-origin: top left; width: 200%; } Unstable Installation Series: Hörl, E. (2015) ‘A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of Cyberneticization and General Ecology’, in D. Diederichsen and A. Franke (eds.) The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 121–130.

Hörl, E. (2015) ‘A Thousand Ecologies: The Process of Cyberneticization and General Ecology’, in D. Diederichsen and A. Franke (eds.) The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 121–130.


Hörl’s general ecology names a historical transformation in which relation precedes the entities it connects. Ecology is no longer restricted to natural environments; it becomes the dominant logic of a cybernetic world composed through distributed technical, biological and social couplings. The decisive claim is that individuals and milieus do not pre-exist their relations but emerge together through processes of co-individuation. Cyberneticisation intensifies this condition by embedding perception, action and decision within pervasive media, sensors and computational environments operating below the threshold of conscious experience. Hörl therefore rejects both instrumental accounts of technology and romantic returns to nature. The ecological is precisely the radically artificial environmentality through which human and nonhuman forces are continuously mediated. His methodological operation is genealogical and ontological: he rereads Heidegger, Simondon and cybernetics in order to describe the technological unconscious of the present. The essay bridges philosophy of technology, media theory and political ecology by proposing that power must now be analysed through environments of relation rather than through autonomous subjects confronting external objects.