Digital Rubbish A Natural History of Electronics 1st Edition by Jennifer Gabrys ISBN 9780472035373 0472035371

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ISBN 10: 0472035371
ISBN 13: 9780472035373
Author: Jennifer Gabrys

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. Where other studies have addressed “digital” technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated “spaces” where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository.
Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys draws together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies.

Digital Rubbish A Natural History of Electronics 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Silicon Elephants: The Transformative Materiality of Microchips

2. Ephemeral Screens: Exchange at the Interface

3. Shipping and Receiving: Circuits of Disposal and the “Social Death” of Electronics

4. Museum of Failure: The Mutability of Electronic Memory

5. Media in the Dump: Salvage Stories and Spaces of Remainder

Conclusion: Digital Rubbish Theory

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