Description: Energetics, Paperback by Pasek, Anne; Lin, Cindy Kaiying; Cooper, Zane Griffin Talley; Kinder, Jordan B., ISBN 1517915872, ISBN-13 9781517915872, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Exploring the connections between energy and media—and what those connections mean for our current moment Energy and media are the entangled middles of social life—and also of each other. This volume traces the contours of both a media analytic of energy and an energy analytic of media across the cultural, environmental, and economic relations they undergird. Energetics argues that media and energy require joint theorization—not only in their potential to universalize but also in the many contingent and intermeshed relations that they bind together across contemporary informational and fossil regimes. Focusing specifically on operations, the coauthors analyze how data and energy have jointly modulated the character of the materiality and labor of systems in a warming world. Anne Pasek provides a brief energy history of the bit, tracing how the electrification and digitization of American computing propelled a turn toward efficiency as both a solution and instigator of parallel crises in the workforce and the climate. Zane Griffin Talley Cooper traces these concerns within cryptographic proof-of-work systems and the heat they necessarily produce and seek to manage. Following heat through the twinned histories of thermodynamics and information theory, he argues that such systems are best approached as a paradigmatic, rather than exceptional, example of computing infrastructures. Cindy Kaiying Lin focuses on the practical and political frictions created as database and management designs move from the Global North to South, illustrating how the energy constraints and software cultures of Indonesia open new spaces of autonomy within environmental governance. Finally, Jordan B. Kinder offers a theorization of “platform energetics,” demonstrating how public energy discourses and settler land claims are entangled in the infrastructures of data colonialism in Canada.
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Book Title: Digital Energetics
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Publication Name: Digital Energetics
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Media Studies, General
Item Height: 0.2 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Subject Area: Mathematics, Social Science
Author: Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Jordan B. Kinder, Anne Pasek
Item Length: 7 in
Item Width: 5 in
Series: In Search of Media Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
