Finite Media :Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies - A Cultural Politics Book

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Finite Media

Finite Media :Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies - A Cultural Politics Book

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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780822362920
ISBN10 0822362929
Number Of Pages 256
Item Weight 363 g
Publisher / Reseller Duke University Press
Format paperback
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Media Reviews

"This insightful book is replete with illuminating examples and case studies, with subtle arguments that will likely prove prescient in years to come." - Niall Flynn (LSE Review of Books) "Filled with cases of environment changes of contemporary age, Cubitt approaches the topic with journalistic clarity and deep comparative activist source-data, uncovering various types of criminal activities that he grounds with many background theories. . . . Similar to previous books, Finite Media is a rather short (and concentrated) reading, with an even lighter style that makes reading a very pleasurable experience." - Ana Peraica (Leonardo Reviews) "Sean Cubitt’s Finite Media is so much more than the title suggests: it is a meticulously researched and thoughtful intervention into the linkages between digital media and environmental degradation." - Sandra Robinson (Theory, Culture & Society)

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Author's Bio

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of several books, most recently, The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels.

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