Hyphen Journal Issue 3.2: Ecologies explores expanded notions of ecology and interdependence, with contributions that critically engage with themes including human-bacterial relations, non-binary bodies and ice, women in decolonial anti-extractivist activism, the Covid pandemic as pandaemonium, photography and nitrogen-altered landscapes, synthetic sound ecologies, dwelling and consumer culture, more-than-human notions of film curation, and intersections between new materialist thought and particle physics, through both theoretical and practice-based approaches.

This issue sees the light of day at a time of ever-proliferating crises. In this context, this issue could be read, among other things, as a missive that puts forward ways of being in the world ecologically, that is, with care, joy, interdependence, more-than-human socialities, respect for past and future generations, as much as with indignation, defiance and demands for justice. Ecological being means, in the spirit of Félix Guattari, attending to the interconnectedness of mental, social and material realms of being, as well as acknowledging the ways in which politics are articulated on scales ranging from the molecular to the planetary.