Toxic execution

? uses Barad's claim to de-naturalize nature
? material feminisms (aka new materialisms)

As Barad notes, “[t]he stakes in denaturalizing  
nature are not insignificant. Demonstrating nature’s queerness, its trans*-embodiment, exposing the monstrous face of nature itself in  
the undoing of naturalness holds significant political potential”(Barad  
2015, 412). In this context it is important to foreground the entangled  
relations of petrochemicals, waste, computation and capitalism, to  
trouble nature and its naturalness “all the way down” (Barad 2015, 413),  
I do this by invigorating the idea of toxic execution.

As Wendy Hui Kyong Chun has noted, in the context of  
computation things always seem to be disappearing in such crucial  
ways, not just because of the effects of computation but because this  
process of disappearance is central to the temporality of computation  
itself.

increase the density of all kinds of other traffic on the bridge  
between what counts as nature and culture” (Haraway 1997, 56 cited  
in Hird 231)

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Thinking with the Animal-Hacker: Articulation in Ecologies of Earth Observation (http://www.aprja.net/thinking-with-the-animal-hackerarticulation-in-ecologies-of-earth-observation/)

"the non-human animal, an entity that exploits the computational  ecology, reconfigures it in an act of what Donna Haraway would describe  as “worlding”

"mud covered cameras", mixing and separating: "nonhuman animals"

"the co-evolving vision of a computational universe" Hayles: "one in which we make and imagine the universe through the  lens of our own computational  age."

In the context of research on computing ecologies it provides a way to  grapple with “the material artifacts and natural stuff that populate our  [computational] environments as well as on socioeconomic structures  that produce and reproduce the conditions of our everyday lives” (Coole  1)

the non human writer : The ‘non-human’ forces I am referring to include nonhuman animals,  plants, watercourses, earth energies as well as hardware and software .

-> intersections of ‘nature’ and computation (mud covered cameras)

simplified and widespread sensibility that “the world is a computer and  the best way to listen to that computer is with other computers”
"the conceptualization of sensing as a form of questioning, a codely call  to an active agent rather than the observation of a passive subject"

my concerns are specifically in recognition of the drive towards  planetary-scale computation and the wider imaginary of nature-objects in  the ‘internet of things’

profound reconfigurations of bodies and processes [Haraway];  as both human and non-human bodies are entangled in computational practices.