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Finite Media

Autor Sean Cubitt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 ian 2017
While digital media gives 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 by 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822362920
ISBN-10: 0822362929
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction. Eco-mediation  1

1. Energy  13

2. Matter  63

3. Eco-political Aesthetics  151

4. Ecological Communication as Politics  169

Coda on Saturn  193

References  201

Index  237