| Gaia: | Ecological collapse and the proliferation of digitally mediated relations are two conjoined elements of the
‘technonatural present’, which pose varied challenges and openings for the future of geographical thought
and praxis beyond the delineated sub-disciplinary concerns of more-than-human and digital geographies. In
this commentary, we draw attention to the inseparability, now and into the future, of geographical thought
and praxis from digital mediation. This mediation is also central to forms of encounter, exploitation, and
governance shaping human-nonhuman relations. Within this complex nexus of humans, nonhumans, environments, and technologies, it is crucial to critically examine how nature is made (mediated) and remade
(remediated), by whom, for whom, and with whom. We call for research that affirmatively centres the
potentials for progressive digitally-mediated environmentalisms, drawing from Agnieszka Leszczynski and
Sarah Elwood’s work on ‘glitch epistemologies’. To conclude, we point to a series of themes and questions
that geographers might usefully engage with as they navigate digitally (re)mediated catastrophic times.
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