In what ways do technologies shape and alter humans and the environment? Rather than merely intervening in the Earth system, human technologies are now bringing about transformations of planetary scale. As Haus der Kulturen der Welt Director Bernd Scherer points out, entire infrastructures, such as complex electricity and data networks, have been built around these technologies, effectively creating a second “nature,” through which not only the environment but human activity itself has become exploitable, commodified, and in that way, naturalized. The availability of social processes in the form of data sets paves the way for the smooth and seamless control of societal activities. Looking into the future, Scherer stresses the necessity to reclaim the cultural-political space from technological governance.