Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sustainable Media
Part I Resource Media
	1 500,000 Kilowatts of Stardust: An Ecomaterialist Reframing of Singin’ in the Rain
	2 Pipeline Ecologies: Rural Entanglements of Fiber-Optic Cables
	3 Making Data Sustainable: Backup Culture and Risk Perception
	4 “There Ain’t No Gettin’ Offa This Train”: Final Fantasy VII and the Pwning of Environmental Crisis
Part II Social Ecologies, Mediating Environments
	5 Mediating Infrastructures: (Im)Mobile Toxicity and Cell Antenna Publics
	6 The Lack of Media: The Invisible Domain post 3.11
	7 Ping and the Material Meanings of Ocean Sound
	8 “Going the Distance”: Steadicam’s Ecological Aesthetic
Part III (Un)sustainable Materialities
	9 Ecologies of Fabrication
	10 Re-thingifying the Internet of Things
	11 So-called Nature: Friedrich Kittler and Ecological Media Materialism
Part IV Scaling, Modeling, Coupling
	12 Think Galactically, Act Microscopically? The Science of Scale in Video Games
	13 Toward Symbiosis: Human-viral Futures in the “Molecular Movies”
	14 Coupling Complexity: Ecological Cybernetics as a Resource for Nonrepresentational Moves to Action
	15 The Invisible Axis: From Polar Media to Planetary Networks
Notes on Contributors
Index