The theme for this issue, (In)finite Ecologies, came to life as my co-editors, Garth Sabo and Christine Bennett, and I delved into the rich diversity and circulation history of ecological thinking across the disciplines. As literature scholars, we came to this topic—and the environmental humanities more generally—through varying methodological, disciplinary, literary, and topical commitments: histories of science and medicine, speculative fiction, environmental writing and activism, modernist avant garde writing and image-making, media studies, even film theory. And we were struck by the way that these divergent paths brought us to a similar set of questions about what, exactly, ecological thinking entails across history and in our time. Is the notion of ecology still an applicable heuristic through which to understand the material reality of the 21st century? Are there instances in which ecology, so often bound to notions of infinite relationality—and thus, consequence—hits an epistemological limit? What, if any, are...
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