The Anthrobscene

by Jussi Parikka

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816696071
• ISBN13: 9780816696079
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 6.8"