<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jussi Parikka</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jussi.parikka1976@gmail.com">jussi.parikka1976@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM<br>Subject: The Anthrobscene<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear friends,</span><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">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! </div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">best</div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jussi</span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro">THE ANTHROBSCENE</font></div>
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro">By Jussi Parikka</font></div>
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro">University of Minnesota Press l 68
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro">ISBN 978-1-4529-4400-5 | ebook | $4.95</font></div>
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro">Forerunners: Ideas First Series</font></div>
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro">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 <i>The Anthrobscene</i>, 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.<br>
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the first three works released in the University of Minnesota
Press's new <a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/forerunners-ideas-first" target="_blank">Forerunners:
Ideas First</a> initiative, along with <i>Aesop's
Anthropology</i>, by John Hartigan Jr., and <i>Mediators</i>,
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
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro"><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Myriad Pro"><b>Jussi Parikka</b> is professor in
technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art,
University of Southampton.</font></div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan" target="_blank">http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div>
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