Gabrys’ Program Earth theorises environmental sensing as a transformation in how environments are known, governed and made actionable. The iconic idea is that sensors do not merely monitor environments; they program them by producing new relations among data, organisms, citizens, infrastructures and planetary imaginaries. Its theoretical contribution is to connect environmental media with computation, showing that sensing technologies generate experimental milieus and forms of environmentality. Methodologically, the book moves across forests, animals, oceans, air pollution and smart cities, combining media theory, field encounters and ethico-aesthetic analysis. Its conceptual operation is distributed sensing: environments become computationally articulated through devices, protocols, subjects and speculative practices. The bridge to the wider field joins STS, media ecology, environmental humanities, smart-city research, citizen science and political ecology.
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