X-gram and/as techsposure

How can generative AI’s entanglement with climate crisis be made visible? This question catalyzed a research-creational intervention, called X-gram, that emblematizes this paper’s theoretical contribution, a concept I call techsposure. Combining the words “technology” and “exposure,” techsposure is a method by which a technology’s affordances are made to expose its own material, infrastructural, environmental, or climate consequences. Put another way, techsposure occurs when tech tells on itself in a particularly poetically-just kind of way. Broadly, this article argues that research-creational interventions are urgently required ethical tools in our scholarly toolkits. They equip us to creatively destabilize Big Tech’s charting of bleak climate futures and to engage audiences in imagining, as Natalie Loveless (2019) puts it, how the world could be organized differently.