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

*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./

Duke University Press

a Cultural Politics Book

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