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Given <jats:italic>nature<\/jats:italic>\u2019s unyielding relevance, this paper takes inspiration from Sally Haslanger\u2019s project of conceptual amelioration to examine how meanings ascribed to <jats:italic>nature<\/jats:italic> can lead to the actualization of desired sociomaterial realities. By building on posthumanist political ecology and Michel Callon\u2019s notion of performation, I illustrate a dynamic in which meanings of <jats:italic>nature<\/jats:italic> emerge through the engagement in practices with the environment which are, more often than not, mediated by different technologies. After exploring this proposal through the lens of different environmentalisms, I argue that technologies can play a significant role in mediating conceptualizations of <jats:italic>nature.<\/jats:italic> To support this argument, I introduce a few elements of mediation theory and examine the meaning of <jats:italic>nature<\/jats:italic> that may emerge when social media users interact with online content of climate and ecological collapse. Overall, this approach advances a postphenomenological contribution to the scholarly trend of examining how technologies may disrupt fundamental concepts with which we respond to ethical issues. This approach underscores the role of technologically mediated practices in processes of conceptualization, as well as the significant political dimension of conceptual engineering projects.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s10676-024-09793-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,6]],"date-time":"2024-08-06T14:57:08Z","timestamp":1722956228000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Technologically mediated encounters with \u2018nature\u2019"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-6867-864X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patricia D.","family":"Reyes Benavides","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"9793_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Anderson, C. B., Athayde, S., Raymond, C. M., Vatn, A., Arias-Ar\u00e9valo, P., Gould, R. 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