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The Anthrobscene
Jussi Parikka
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Description for The Anthrobscene
Paperback. Series: Forerunners: Ideas First. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFD; JPFC; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 179 x 8. Weight in Grams: 78.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
60
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696079
SKU
V9780816696079
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Ref
99-13
About Jussi Parikka
Jussi Parikka is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
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