A Geology of Media: Volume 46

by Jussi Parikka

Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, 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. And to do so, writes Jussi Parikka, is to confront the profound environmental and social implications of this ubiquitous, but hardly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816695520
• ISBN13: 9780816695522
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"