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Dear colleagues on the MECCSA-list,
please find below information about my new book; it is just out from University of Minnesota Press and gradually available! The book addresses a theme related to environmental humanities & media theory, but more specifically, rethinks media and materiality in an ecologic context that includes topics such as electronic waste and also a focus on media arts. There will be some launch events taking place esp. in mid-May (the ones in the UK, most probably at least in Winchester at WSA on May 13 and in London on May 15, details to be confirmed).
best wishes
Jussi
A sweeping new ecological take on technology
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A GEOLOGY OF MEDIA
By Jussi Parikka
University of Minnesota Press l 224 pages l April 2015
ISBN 978-0-8166-9552-2 | paperback | $24.95
ISBN 978-0-8166-9551-5 | hard cover | $87.50
Electronic Mediations, Volume 46
Media history if millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of Jussi Parikka's pioneering and provocative book, A Geology of Media, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that precede media themselves - Earth's history, geological formations, minerals, and energy.
PRAISE FOR A GEOLOGY OF MEDIA:
"Jussi Parikka's A Geology of Media really expands what media theory can do. The materiality of media is no longer restricted to questions of economies of technics but extends all the way to its molecular composition. It connects the fast calculations of digital time to the deepest of temporalities, that of the earth itself. An essential contribution to a media theory for the Anthropocene." —McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jussi Parikka is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is the author of Insect Media (Minnesota, 2010), Digital Contagions, and What is Media Archaeology?
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-geology-of-media
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/electronic-mediations
For review copies or author interview requests, contact:
Heather Skinner, Publicist
University of Minnesota Press
111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290
Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
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