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Autor:
Sy Taffel
Publikováno v:
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 163-184 (2018)
Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological prog
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/e61f09c095264352a0a27086550f1c75
Autor:
Sy Taffel
Publikováno v:
NECSUS, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 233-254 (2013)
Media ecology presents an emergent, non-representational approach towards the study of media systems. This article seeks to extend the theoretical underpinnings of media ecology by introducing the concept of scale – or more precisely scalar entangl
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/a8f63108d59d4df28028c303d069a0b6
Autor:
Sy Taffel
Publikováno v:
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2015)
This paper asks how coltan, casseterite, wolframite and gold ores mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo relate networked microelectronics to brutal warlords, and what legal and industrial actions have been enacted by activists, NGOs, politicians
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/004e09e7120845d998d048423f717a65
There is virtually nowhere on earth that remains untouched by plastics and the situation presents a serious threat to our natural world. Despite the magnitude of the problem, the interventions most often put in place are consumer-led and market-based
Autor:
Nicholas Holm, Sy Taffel
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,'whose literal translation is the ‘A
Autor:
Sy Taffel
Publikováno v:
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 6:433-454
Apple's AirPods have helped forge a multibillion-dollar market for true wireless hearable devices. The article employs media geology and political ecology to argue that AirPods exemplify the Capitalocene, a time where a planetary sociotechnical syste
Autor:
Sy Taffel
Publikováno v:
New Media & Society. 25:980-998
‘Data is the new oil’ is a phrase that is frequently employed to indicate that digital technologies and data extraction have supplanted fossil fuels and geological extractivism as the central driver of the global economy. While this metaphor has
Autor:
Sy Taffel
Publikováno v:
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 2019
Decision making machines are today ‘trusted’ to perform or assist with a rapidly expanding array of tasks. Indeed, many contemporary industries could not now function without them. Nevertheless, this trust in and reliance upon digital automation