Digital Rubbish A Natural History of Electronics
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic wa...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
2011
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| Colección: | Digital culture books.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419755806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : a natural history of electronics
- Silicon elephants : the transformative materiality of microchips
- Ephemeral screens : exchange at the interface
- Shipping and receiving : circuits of disposal and the "social death" of electronics
- Museum of failure : the mutability of electronic memory
- Media in the dump : salvage stories and spaces of remainder
- Conclusion : digital rubbish theory.
