Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics - Brossura

Gabrys, Jennifer

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0472035371 ISBN 13: 9780472035373

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2013

Riassunto

This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository.

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys draws together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Product Description:

Book by Gabrys Jennifer

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0472035371
• ISBN 13: 9780472035373
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 225