Erich Hörl is Full Professor of Media Culture at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM) at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also senior researcher at Leuphana’s Digital Culture Research Lab (DRCL). His research interests include the elaboration of a general ecology of media and technology as well as the description and critique of the process of cyberneticization. He is the contributing editor of Die technologische Bedingung: Beiträge zur Beschreibung der technischen Welt (Suhrkamp, 2011) and of Die Transformation des Humanen: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik (Suhrkamp, 2008). Among his articles is “A thousand ecologies: the process of cyberneticization and general ecology” in The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside(edited by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke, Sternberg Press, 2013).