2005 MIT Press Sterling is best known for his work as an author of fictional works within the cyberpunk sci-fi genre, but Shaping Things is a book which largely examines technology, design and sustainability. Sterling is interested in interrogating the types of technological futures we are likely to encounter (a theme which of is of [...]
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Bruce Sterling – Shaping Things
Posted in book review, digital culture, environmentalism, tagged bruce sterling, design, shaping things, spime, sterling, sustainability on May 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Media Materiality and the Environment: Bibliography
Posted in media ecology, tagged hardware, media, mediating environmental change, sustainability on March 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a selective bibliography of some of the sources I used for my presentation at the Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forwards MeCCSA symposium in Bournemouth earlier this month. A few people there asked if I could post these links, so here they are, I hope they’re useful Media Materiality and Environment: Exploring the [...]
Prezi for Media Materiality and The Environment: Exploring the Ethics and Sustainability of Hardware
Posted in media ecology, tagged environment, hardware, media, media ecology, prezi, sustainability on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Media, Materiality and the Environment: Exploring the Ethics and Sustainability of Hardware on Prezi Here’s a link (it seems that WordPress doesn’t like Prezi’s embed codes) to the Prezi presentation I made for the Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forwards symposium in Bournemouth which took place on Friday 4th March 2011. It was a [...]
Capitalism, Consumption, and Sustainability
Posted in activism, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, tagged capitalism, consumption, ecology, resource depletion, sustainability on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are constantly being reminded by environmentalists that we only have one planet on which to live, a single set of resources which are being depleted at an ever increasing rate… But our biosphere is not a static pool of resources. The world is constantly changing. All around us life is growing, evolving, renewing itself, [...]
