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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 leave behind as our geological legacy. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

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Author:   Jussi Parikka
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.068kg
ISBN:  

9780816696079

ISBN 10:   0816696071
Pages:   60
Publication Date:   30 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Jussi Parikka is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

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