Finite Media
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2016
256 pages
978-0-8223-7347-6 (ISBN)
Description
Sean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.
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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.
Content
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
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
