The Anthrobscene / Jussi Parikka.

Main entry:

Parikka, Jussi, 1976- author. aut

Title & Author:

The Anthrobscene / Jussi Parikka.

Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Description:

57 pages ; 18 cm.

Series:

Forerunners: ideas first

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Forerunners: Ideas First from the University of Minnesota Press -- Introduction -- And the Earth Screamed, Alive -- An Ecology of Deep Time -- A Media History of Matter: From Scrap Metal to Zombie Media -- Conclustion : Cultural Techniques of Material Media.

Summary:

Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy.-Back cover.

ISBN:

9780816696079 (paperback)
0816696071 (paperback)

Subject:

Digital communications Environmental aspects.
Information technology Environmental aspects.
Digital media Environmental aspects.
Internet and environmentalism.
Transmission numérique Aspect de l'environnement.
Technologie de l'information Aspect de l'environnement.
Médias numériques Aspect de l'environnement.
Internet et environnementalisme.

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Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 291567
Call No.: BIB 235300
Status: Available

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