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A Geology of MediaJanuary 17, 2014 jussiparikka Leave a comment Go to commentsI am pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with University of Minnesota Pressfor a new book tentatively called A Geology of Media.Planned for 2015, A Geology of Media forms the third, final part of the media ecology-trilogy. It started with Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses(2007) and continued with Insect Media (2010). This book on the geophysics and the non-organic ground of media complements the earlier takes by offering a media materialismfrom the point of view of geological resources, electronic waste and media arts. Throughengaging with several contemporary art and technology projects it provides a mediatheoretical argument: to think of materiality of media beyond the focus on machines andtechnologies by focusing on what they consist of: the chemistry and geological materialsof media, from metals to dust.In short, I am interested to see if what pejoratively sometimes is called hardwarefetishism is not hard enough, and even media and cultural theorists need to focus on therocks and crust that make technical media possible. Earth history of deep times mixes withmedia history, which becomes a matter of not only thousands, but millions of years of non-linear history (to modify Manuel Delandas original idea). This way media materialismbecomes a way to entangle media technologies, environmental issues and themes of globallabour. Perhaps instead of the Anthropocene, we should just refer to the Anthropobscene.Ive been in recent talks and short posts been addressing the geological in media, and mypiece in The Atlantic offered a short preview of whats to come. In addition, below a verytentative table of contents. This project (and the Erkki Kurenniemi book I am working onwith Joasia Krysa) will keep me busy for a while.A Geology of Media

Preface

1) Introduction: Grounds of Media/Culture2) An Alternative Deep Time of the Media3) Psychogeophysics of Technology4) Dust and the Exhausted Planet5) Media FossilsAfterwords: Half-LifeAppendix:Zombie Media, by Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka

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1. stuarteldenJanuary 28, 2014 at 8:50 amReplyReblogged this on Progressive Geographies and commented:Jussi Parikka with news of his forthcoming book. Lots of links to my own interest inthe Geo part of geopolitics, geometrics, geopower

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Jussi Parikkais a writer, media theorist and professor intechnological culture & aesthetics at WinchesterSchool of Art (University of Southampton). He isalso Docent of Digital Culture Theory atUniversity of Turku, Finland and HonoraryVisiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University,Cambridge.

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