.../7 global capitalism, asking pertinent questions about how we conceptualize contemporary ethical and biopolitical issues surrounding humans and other living systems. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 plastic geology of media media ecology Anthropocene ecocriticism My fingers strike plastic keys...

...Jussi Parikka This introduction to the special section on mediated geologies contextualizes the articles that follow within recent discussions concerning cultural politics of the environment, ecological contexts of contemporary media, and debates concerning the Anthropocene. The special section...

... investigation, including the historical role of thermal management in the differentiation of gendered bodies. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 media geology infrastructure heat temperature The impact of an explosion—the result of contact between ammonium nitrate, fuel oil, and the spark of a detonator...

... writing intersect are the humble city sites where politics play out at myriad scales—where the entanglement of global and local political-economic forces enter people’s lives through the material, the geological, and the aesthetic. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 architecture geology materiality...

... dwindling material resources. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 care event posthumanism new materialisms affect new media geology diagram sensor possibility A cry of the earth, a cry of the poor! Assailing the myopic greed of the rich and powerful in his encyclical of May 24, 2015, Pope Francis...

... Negri 2000 : 215). The emergence of geology as a term of reference for media and cultural criticism is emblematic of this shift of paradigm. It foregrounds not just any form of materiality, but rather—through the emphasis on plastic, metal, and heat—the earthbound, terrestrial kind of materialism...

... take stock of how media industries contribute to the production of toxic worlds. Jussi Parikka’s A Geology of Media (2015) took a quite different approach, providing a disciplinary encounter with science and technology studies, artistic practice, and media archaeology to probe the geologic...

... Geologies,” and “The Spirit of Luxury,” with the latter special issue attending to historical and economic, moral and aesthetic questions concerning art and luxury branding, contemporary manners, luxury fashion, and inequality ( Armitage and Roberts 2016 ). Although there has been a return of geopolitical...

... notes from conversations with locals and nuggets of oral histories about the slow, violent convergence of settler and indigenous communities. This was fieldwork that went beyond ethnography. It paid as much attention to geology and biology as to culture, to nonhumans as to humans. It was impressionistic...

... construct the conditions through which timekeeping might be interrogated as a function of a grander scheme of time management, one that modernity claimed as the measure through which it might command and control history? What form of accounting led us to become geology? When there is only a moment to live...