Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as Alphaville, Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Deleuze Studies, Discourse, Film-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and SubStance. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon by Elena del Río is a beautifully crafted and timely exploration of the dynamic interplay between art, technology, and ecology. By weaving together Bill Viola’s immersive video installations and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, del Río illuminates how techno-ecologies redefine our understanding of existence, ecological interconnectedness, and collective transformation. A must-read for anyone seeking to grasp the creative potential of these intersections.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert SimondonPart I: Nature’s Gestures1. Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum2. Artful Politics of NatureIntermezzo: Video and the Digital ConvergencePart II: More-than-Human Ecologies3. Affective Ecologies, a People to Come4. Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion5. Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation6. Mental Ecologies, Transversal CinemaCoda: A Journey backwards is a Journey forwardReferences

Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as Alphaville, Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Deleuze Studies, Discourse, Film-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and SubStance. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon by Elena del Río is a beautifully crafted and timely exploration of the dynamic interplay between art, technology, and ecology. By weaving together Bill Viola’s immersive video installations and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, del Río illuminates how techno-ecologies redefine our understanding of existence, ecological interconnectedness, and collective transformation. A must-read for anyone seeking to grasp the creative potential of these intersections.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert SimondonPart I: Nature’s Gestures1. Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum2. Artful Politics of NatureIntermezzo: Video and the Digital ConvergencePart II: More-than-Human Ecologies3. Affective Ecologies, a People to Come4. Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion5. Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation6. Mental Ecologies, Transversal CinemaCoda: A Journey backwards is a Journey forwardReferences

Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as Alphaville, Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Deleuze Studies, Discourse, Film-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and SubStance. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon by Elena del Río is a beautifully crafted and timely exploration of the dynamic interplay between art, technology, and ecology. By weaving together Bill Viola’s immersive video installations and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, del Río illuminates how techno-ecologies redefine our understanding of existence, ecological interconnectedness, and collective transformation. A must-read for anyone seeking to grasp the creative potential of these intersections.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert SimondonPart I: Nature’s Gestures1. Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum2. Artful Politics of NatureIntermezzo: Video and the Digital ConvergencePart II: More-than-Human Ecologies3. Affective Ecologies, a People to Come4. Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion5. Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation6. Mental Ecologies, Transversal CinemaCoda: A Journey backwards is a Journey forwardReferences