Enemy Ecologies

Afterword

Abstract

This article is about how artistic responses to climate crisis – especially in sound art – can end up reproducing the capitalist dynamic they seek to critique. Building on the idea of enemy feminisms, I ask about the possibility of enemy ecologies: ecological forms and practices that present themselves as critical and freeing while remaining consonant with dominant economic logics. Drawing on a variety of examples, I question the assumed po-litical efficacy of some relational philosophies and affective mediations. The point is not to reject such practices. Instead, it is to develop an immanent critique that addresses their internal contradictions and to ask how sound art might compose publics capable of confronting ecological crisis rather than (unintentionally) accommodating it.