Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment

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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