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[ecrea] New book: Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies

Wed Jan 11 17:22:00 GMT 2017



*Finite Media***

*Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies***

/Sean Cubitt/

"This comprehensive and well-written book offers a new perspective on the place of elder abuse within gerontology. It is an invaluable resource that should influence the future of research, education, and public policy."–Jill Manthorpe, professor of social work at King’s College London, UK

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.

*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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