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¬A¬ geology of media / Jussi Parikka. - Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2015. - xiv, 206 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme . - (Electronic mediations ; 46)

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ISBN 978-0-8166-9552-2 (pb : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-8166-9551-5 (hc : alk. paper)

Massenmedien ; Medientheorie

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 themselvesEarths 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 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 Zielinskis widely discussed notion of deep timebut 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. Parikkashows 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 worldit runs through it, enables it, and hosts it in an era of unprecedented climate change. While looking backward to Earths distant past, it also looks forward to a more expansive media theoryand, implicitly, media activism.

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Titel

[000054916]
¬A¬ geology of media / Jussi Parikka. - Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2015. - xiv, 206 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme . - (Electronic mediations ; 46)
Hier auch später erschienene Auflagen
ISBN 978-0-8166-9552-2 (pb : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-8166-9551-5 (hc : alk. paper)
Massenmedien ; Medientheorie
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 themselvesEarths 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 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 Zielinskis widely discussed notion of deep timebut 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. Parikkashows 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 worldit runs through it, enables it, and hosts it in an era of unprecedented climate change. While looking backward to Earths distant past, it also looks forward to a more expansive media theoryand, implicitly, media activism.

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