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The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste | |||
[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-261-2] | |||
''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Medianatures/bio Jussi Parikka] | |||
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==[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Electronic_waste/Introduction Introduction: The Materiality of Media and Waste]== | |||
''Medianatures ''picks up from Donna Haraway’s idea of ''naturecultures ''– the topological continuum between nature and culture, the material entwining and enfolding of various agencies, meanings and interactions. Medianatures gives the concept of naturecultures a specific emphasis, and that emphasis is at the core of this living book. It is a useful concept and framework for investigating some of the ways in which our electronic and high-tech media culture is entwined with a variety of material agencies. The notion of ‘materiality’ is taken here in a literal sense to refer, for instance, to ‘plasma reactions and ion implantation’ (Yoshida, 1994: 105) – as in processes of semiconductor fabrication, or to an alternative list of media studies objects and components which are studied from an e-waste management perspective: ‘metal, motor/compressor, cooling, plastic, insulation, glass, LCD, rubber, wiring/electrical, concrete, transformer, magnetron, textile, circuit board, fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp, heating element, thermostat, brominated flamed retardant (BFR)-containing plastic, batteries, CFC/HCFC/HFC/HC, external electric cables, refractory ceramic fibers, radioactive substances and electrolyte capacitors (over L/D 25 mm)’, and which themselves are constituted from a range of materials – plastics, wood, plywood, copper, aluminum, silver, gold, palladium, lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, selenium, hexavalent chromium and flame retardants (Pinto, 2008). ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Electronic_waste/Introduction more]) | |||
== Materials == | |||
== | |||
; Kevin Brigden and David Santillo : [http://www.genderchangers.org/docs/200609_Greenpeace_ToxicChemicalsincomputers.pdf Toxic Chemicals in Computers Exposed: Determining the Presence of Hazardous Substances in Five Laptop Computers] | |||
; Jason Holden and Christopher Kelty : [http://cnx.org/content/m14503/latest/ The Environmental Impact of the Manufacturing of Semiconductors] | |||
; Fumikazu Yoshida : [http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/30514/1/23_P73-138.pdf High-Tech Pollution] | |||
; Bernd Kopacek : [http://ewasteguide.info/files/Kopacek_2008a_WasteCon.pdf ReLCD: Recycling and ReUse of LCD Panels] | |||
; Richard W. Clapp : [http://www.ehjournal.net/content/5/1/30 Mortality Among US Employees of a Large Computer Manufacturing Company: 1969-2001] | |||
== Energetics == | |||
; UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology : [http://www.parliament.uk/documents/post/postpn319.pdf ICT and CO2 Emissions] | |||
; Olli Silven and Kari Jyrkkä : [http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/es/2007/056976.pdf Observations on Power-Efficiency Trends in Mobile Communication Devices] | |||
; Partha Pratim Ray : [http://www.ijcse.com/docs/IJCSE10-01-04-15.pdf The Green Grid Saga -- A Green Initiative to Data Centers: A Review] | |||
; Jonathan G. Koomey : [http://www.analyticspress.com/datacenters.html Growth in Data Center Electricity Use 2005 to 2010] | |||
; Willis Lang and Jignesh M. Patel : [http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1767 Towards Eco-friendly Database Management Systems] | |||
; Matteo Pasquinelli : [http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-117-four-regimes-of-entropy-for-an-ecology-of-genetics-and-biomorphic-media-theory/ Four Regimes of Entropy. For an Ecology of Genetics and Biomorphic Media Theory] | |||
== Waste == | |||
; Jim Puckett and Ted Smith (eds) : [http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/publications/reports/toxics/2006/exporting-harm-the-high-tech/ Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia] | |||
; Jonathan Linton, Julian Scott Yeomans, and Reena Yoogalingam : [http://www.iseis.org/eia/abstract.asp?no=04056 The Facilitation of Industrial Ecology, Product Take-Back, and Sustainability through the Forecasting of Television Waste Flows] | |||
; Julian Scott Yeomans and Yavuz Günalay : [http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toenvirj/articles/V003/14TOENVIRSJ.pdf Unsustainable Paradoxes Inherent in the International Legislation of Electronic Waste Disposal] | |||
; Violet N. Pinto : [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796756/ E-waste Hazard: The Impending Challenge] | |||
; S. Priyadharshini ''et al''. : [http://www.ijest.info/docs/IJEST11-03-03-114.pdf A Survey on Electronic Waste Management in Coimbatore] | |||
== Ecosophy == | |||
; Matthias Feilhauer and Soenke Zehle (eds) : [http://www.i-r-i-e.net/issue11.htm Ethics of Waste in the Information Society - Special issue of ''International Review of Information Ethics''] | |||
; Jussi Parikka : [http://seventeen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-116-media-ecologies-and-imaginary-media-transversal-expansions-contractions-and-foldings/ Media Ecologies and Imaginary Media: Expansions, Contractions and Foldings] | |||
; Garnet Hertz : [http://www.conceptlab.com/deadmedia/ Dead Media Research Lab] | |||
; [http://rti.lowtech.org/intro/ Redundant Technology Initiative] | |||
== Appendix 1 == | |||
== | ; Jennifer Gabrys : [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=dcbooks;idno=9380304.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;cc=dcbooks;xc=1;g=dculture Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics] | ||
; [http://www.phonestory.org/ Phone Story: an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone] | |||
[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Electronic_waste/Attributions Attributions] | == [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Electronic_waste/Attributions Attributions] == | ||
== A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book == | |||
; [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/bookarchive/Medianatures.pdf Download a 'frozen' PDF version of this book as it appeared on 7th October 2011] |
Latest revision as of 13:56, 19 January 2012
The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste
edited by Jussi Parikka
Introduction: The Materiality of Media and Waste
Medianatures picks up from Donna Haraway’s idea of naturecultures – the topological continuum between nature and culture, the material entwining and enfolding of various agencies, meanings and interactions. Medianatures gives the concept of naturecultures a specific emphasis, and that emphasis is at the core of this living book. It is a useful concept and framework for investigating some of the ways in which our electronic and high-tech media culture is entwined with a variety of material agencies. The notion of ‘materiality’ is taken here in a literal sense to refer, for instance, to ‘plasma reactions and ion implantation’ (Yoshida, 1994: 105) – as in processes of semiconductor fabrication, or to an alternative list of media studies objects and components which are studied from an e-waste management perspective: ‘metal, motor/compressor, cooling, plastic, insulation, glass, LCD, rubber, wiring/electrical, concrete, transformer, magnetron, textile, circuit board, fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp, heating element, thermostat, brominated flamed retardant (BFR)-containing plastic, batteries, CFC/HCFC/HFC/HC, external electric cables, refractory ceramic fibers, radioactive substances and electrolyte capacitors (over L/D 25 mm)’, and which themselves are constituted from a range of materials – plastics, wood, plywood, copper, aluminum, silver, gold, palladium, lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, selenium, hexavalent chromium and flame retardants (Pinto, 2008). (more)
Materials
- Kevin Brigden and David Santillo
- Toxic Chemicals in Computers Exposed: Determining the Presence of Hazardous Substances in Five Laptop Computers
- Jason Holden and Christopher Kelty
- The Environmental Impact of the Manufacturing of Semiconductors
- Fumikazu Yoshida
- High-Tech Pollution
- Bernd Kopacek
- ReLCD: Recycling and ReUse of LCD Panels
Energetics
- UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
- ICT and CO2 Emissions
- Olli Silven and Kari Jyrkkä
- Observations on Power-Efficiency Trends in Mobile Communication Devices
- Partha Pratim Ray
- The Green Grid Saga -- A Green Initiative to Data Centers: A Review
- Jonathan G. Koomey
- Growth in Data Center Electricity Use 2005 to 2010
- Willis Lang and Jignesh M. Patel
- Towards Eco-friendly Database Management Systems
Waste
- Jim Puckett and Ted Smith (eds)
- Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia
- Jonathan Linton, Julian Scott Yeomans, and Reena Yoogalingam
- The Facilitation of Industrial Ecology, Product Take-Back, and Sustainability through the Forecasting of Television Waste Flows
- Julian Scott Yeomans and Yavuz Günalay
- Unsustainable Paradoxes Inherent in the International Legislation of Electronic Waste Disposal
- Violet N. Pinto
- E-waste Hazard: The Impending Challenge
- S. Priyadharshini et al.
- A Survey on Electronic Waste Management in Coimbatore
Ecosophy
- Matthias Feilhauer and Soenke Zehle (eds)
- Ethics of Waste in the Information Society - Special issue of International Review of Information Ethics
- Garnet Hertz
- Dead Media Research Lab
Appendix 1
- Jennifer Gabrys
- Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics