The adjective “dark” or "black" associated to the Ecology translates the condition of an increasingly “para- natural” nature that is “murkier” and “more perverse” (“disturbing”, but also “tainted”). The term “black ecologies” as it is used in these pages forces that uneasy and disturbing quality of hard-context scenarios (those of the periphery) that were so wicked, compared to the approved “centrality”. But, it also brings them closer to the investigation of conditions (both fertile and conflictive) that are far removed from the bucolic, Platonic and/or Apollonian ideals.