In this thesis I inquire into the ways in which art and theory have reflected and challenged the changing relationship between nature and culture from a position of concern for ecological breakdown. More in specific, I develop a critique of the hybridist naturalisation of technologisation and its aesthetics of an ecology without nature. To critical, social-ecological thinkers and environmentalists the concept of nature has been a tool to convey the need to limit (post-)modern techno-culture that not only produces solutions but simultaneously continues to ignore and increase ecological hazards, injustice and harm, while narrowing the scope, space and time of possible responses. Part of this culture, works of art and social ecological (art) practices nonetheless convey a wider, both sensitive and rational understanding eluding the merely efficient. They (re)present a multitude of situated and connective, regenerative and creative possibilities, and counter the alledged incapacity to take responsibility individually and collectively.