LEADER 03248oam 2200433 450 001 9910289346703321 005 20230803041709.0 010 $a9780472900299 010 $a0472900293 010 $z9780472035373 010 $z0472035371 035 $a(CKB)4100000007010664 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6533976 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007010664 100 $a20181028h20132011 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDigital rubbish $ea natural history of electronics /$fJennifer Gabrys 210 1$aAnn Arbor, MI :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 225 1 $aDigitalculturebooks 311 08$aPrint version: 9780472035373 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic waste occurs not just in the form of discarded computers but also as a scatter of information devices, software, and systems that are rendered obsolete and fail. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural, and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. All together, these sites stack up into a sedimentary record that forms the "natural history" of this study. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. By drawing on the material analysis developed by Walter Benjamin, this natural history method allows for an inquiry into electronics that focuses neither on technological progression nor on great inventors but rather considers the ways in which electronic technologies fail and decay. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys pulls together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies. 410 0$aDigital culture books. 606 $aElectronic waste 606 $aElectronic apparatus and appliances$xHistory 615 0$aElectronic waste. 615 0$aElectronic apparatus and appliances$xHistory. 676 $a363.7288 700 $aGabrys$b Jennifer$0481054 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910289346703321 996 $aDigital rubbish$9254314 997 $aUNINA