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Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
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Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7347-6
Publication date:
2017
The second chapter has three sections. The first addresses the theme of integral waste, as it emerges in the fabrication and manufacture of digital machines. The second articulates the integration of degraded populations and integral waste into consumer discipline, most of all in the moment of disposal of superseded goods, while the final section extends the Marxist concept of the general intellect to nonhuman agencies. These themes are demonstrated through case studies on materials, investigating resource extraction, manufacture, and disposal. From mining bulk metals and rare earths, it moves to the waste of lives and regions in the manufacture of...
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