Media Ecology

"What is media ecology? It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information, and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs. Media ecology is the Toronto School, and the New York School. It is technological determinism, hard and soft, and technological evolution. It is media logic, medium theory, mediology. It is McLuhan Studies, orality-literacy studies, American cultural studies. It is grammar and rhetoric, semiotics and systems theory, the history and the philosophy of technology. It is the postindustrial and the postmodern, and the preliterate and prehistoric. Media ecology is all of these things, and quite a bit more.” 

Lance Strate, president of Media Ecology Association 1999

Media, Culture, Carpentry & Things

First off, here are some things referenced in the Bogost reading...

Bogost's 'Latour Litanizer'

Bogost's 'Image Toy'

Fry's Deconstructulator

And in case you're looking for some context, here's Bogost's explanation of Object-Oriented Ontology (the philosophical perspective within which he's writing here)...

"Ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology ("OOO" for short) puts things at the center of this study. Its proponents contend that nothing has special status, but that everything exists equally--plumbers, cotton, bonobos, DVD players, and sandstone, for example. In contemporary thought, things are usually taken either as the aggregation of ever smaller bits (scientific naturalism) or as constructions of human behavior and society (social relativism). OOO steers a path between the two, drawing attention to things at all scales (from atoms to alpacas, bits to blinis), and pondering their nature and relations with one another as much with ourselves."

Here's Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

....On a different note, here are some things from Jonathan McIntosh, political remix artist/activist.

Gendered Advertising Remixer