From: Jussi Parikka <jussi.parikka1976@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM
Subject: The Anthrobscene
To: Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net>
Dear friends,
here's the e-release of my little publication in the Forerunners-series: The Anthrobscene. It is a stand-alone essay as well as a preview single of the longer book, Geology of Media, out next year!
best
Jussi
The Anthrobscene, one of the first three
works in the Forerunners: Ideas First series, now available
THE ANTHROBSCENE
By Jussi Parikka
University of Minnesota Press l 68
pages l November 2014
ISBN 978-1-4529-4400-5 | ebook | $4.95
ISBN 978-0-8166-9607-9 | paperback |
$7.95
Forerunners: Ideas First Series
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.
The Anthrobscene is one of the first three works released in the University of Minnesota Press's new Forerunners: Ideas First initiative, along with Aesop's Anthropology, by John Hartigan Jr., and Mediators, by Reinhold Martin. 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.
The Anthrobscene is one of the first three works released in the University of Minnesota Press's new Forerunners: Ideas First initiative, along with Aesop's Anthropology, by John Hartigan Jr., and Mediators, by Reinhold Martin. 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jussi Parikka is professor in
technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art,
University of Southampton.
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table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
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