Environing Media is one of those smart books that presents interesting case studies while offering a platform for a broader discussion converging with environmental media studies, with a dose of history of science thrown in for good measure. This is an exciting combination of disciplines and methods driven by the realization of the centrality of technological infrastructures, scientific instruments, and mediating discourses for understanding climate change (and related issues from fossil fuel cultures to air pollution). The editors Adam Wickberg and Johan Gärdebo have firm links with the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) Environmental Humanities Laboratory in the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment (either as graduates or current affiliated researchers), which itself has been a central institution in developing the notion of “environing” in relation to technological cultures. Here a nod to Sverker Sörlin and Nina Wormbs is appropriate. According to their earlier work on environing technologies,...

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