A geology of media
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Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is thepremise of Jussi Parikka's pioneering and provocative book, A Geology ofMedia , which argues that to adequately understand contemporary mediaculture we must set out from material realities that precede mediathemselves-Earth's history, geological formations, minerals, and energy.
Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves-Earth’s history, geological formations, minerals, and energy. And to do so, writes Jussi Parikka, is to confront the profound environmental and social implications of this ubiquitous, but hardly ephemeral, realm of modern-day life.
Exploring the resource depletion and material resourcing required for us to use our devices to live networked lives, Parikka grounds his analysis in Siegfried Zielinski’s widely discussed notion of deep time-but takes it back millennia. Not only are rare earth minerals and many other materials needed to make our digital media machines work, he observes, but used and obsolete media technologies return to the earth as residue of digital culture, contributing to growing layers of toxic waste for future archaeologists to ponder. He shows that these materials must be considered alongside the often dangerous and exploitative labor processes that refine them into the devices underlying our seemingly virtual or immaterial practices.
A Geology of Media demonstrates that the environment does not just surround our media cultural world-it runs through it, enables it, and hosts it in an era of unprecedented climate change. While looking backward to Earth’s distant past, it also looks forward to a more expansive media theory-and, implicitly, media activism-to come.
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Taal: en
Uitvoering: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 maart 2015
Aantal pagina's: 206
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Jussi Parikka
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Minnesota Press
Fabrikant Naam: Libri GmbH
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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 146 mm
Product hoogte: 13 mm
Product lengte: 222 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 142 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 273 g
EAN: 9780816695522