A Geology Of Media Jussi Parikka University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Science Humanity

Media History Is Millions Even Billions Of Years Old That The Premise This Pioneering And Provocative Book Which Argues To Adequately Understand Contemporary Culture We Must Set Out From Material Realities Precede Themselves-Earth\ S Geological Formations Minerals Energy Do So Writes Jussi Parikka Confront Profound Environmental Social Implications Ubiquitous But Hardly Ephemeral Realm Modern-Day Life Exploring Resource Depletion Resourcing Required For Us Use Our Devices Live Networked Lives Grounds His Analysis In Siegfried Zielinski\ Widely Discussed Notion Deep Time-But Takes It Back Millennia Not Only Are Rare Earth Many Other Materials Needed Make Digital Machines Work He Observes Used Obsolete Technologies Return As Residue Contributing Growing Layers Toxic Waste Future Archaeologists Ponder Shows These Be Considered Alongside Often Dangerous Exploitative Labor Processes Refine Them Into Underlying Seemingly Virtual Or Immaterial Practices A Geology Demonstrates Environment Does Just Surround Cultural World-It Runs Through Enables Hosts An Era Unprecedented Climate Change While Looking Backward Earth\ Distant Past Also Looks Forward More Expansive Theory-And Implicitly Activism-To Come Σελίδες: 224 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm