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Title: FINITE MEDIA
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
By: Sean Cubitt
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0822362813
ISBN 13: 9780822362814
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Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 3 January, 2017
Series: a Cultural Politics Book
Pages: 256
Description: Sean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.
Synopsis: While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and human toll exacted by mining and the manufacture, use, and disposal of millions of phones, computers, and other devices. The way out is through an eco-political media aesthetics, in which people use media to shift their relationship to the environment and where public goods and spaces are available to all. Cubitt demonstrates this through case studies ranging from the 1906 film The Story of the Kelly Gang to an image of Saturn taken during NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission, suggesting that affective responses to images may generate a populist environmental politics that demands better ways of living and being. Only by reorienting our use of media, Cubitt contends, can we overcome the failures of political elites and the ravages of capital.
Illustrations: 2 illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Duke University Press
Returns: Returnable
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