---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jussi Parikka <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM Subject: The Anthrobscene To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>
Dear friends, here's the e-release of my little publication in the Forerunners-series: The Anthrobscene. It is a stand-alone essay as well as a preview single of the longer book, Geology of Media, out next year! best Jussi *The Anthrobscene, one of the first three works in the Forerunners: Ideas First series, now available * [image: The Anthrobscene] THE ANTHROBSCENE By Jussi Parikka University of Minnesota Press l 68 pages l November 2014 ISBN 978-1-4529-4400-5 | ebook | $4.95 ISBN 978-0-8166-9607-9 | paperback | $7.95 Forerunners: Ideas First Series Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in *The Anthrobscene*, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a geophysical force, analyzing the material side of the earth as essential for the existence of media and introducing the notion of an alternative deep time in which media live on in the layer of toxic waste we will leave behind as our geological legacy. *The Anthrobscene* is one of the first three works released in the University of Minnesota Press's new Forerunners: Ideas First <http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/forerunners-ideas-first> initiative, along with *Aesop's Anthropology*, by John Hartigan Jr., and *Mediators*, by Reinhold Martin. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship. *ABOUT THE AUTHOR:* *Jussi Parikka* is professor in technological culture and aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-anthrobscene http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/forerunners-ideas-first *REVIEW AND INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:* Digital and print review copies and interviews available upon request. *PRESS CONTACT:* [email protected] | 612.627.1932 | http://www.upress.umn.edu -- Heather Skinner, Publicist and Assistant Marketing Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Avenue S., Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN [email protected] p: 612-627-1932 f: 612-627-1980http://www.upress.umn.edu -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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