Massive Media: A Geology of Media book review.
J. R. Carpenter reviews Jussi Parikka's A Geology of Media.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/massive-media-geology-media-book-review
J. R. Carpenter reviews A Geology of Media, the third, final part of the media ecology-trilogy. It started with Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007) and continued with Insect Media (2010). It focuses beyond machines and technologies onto the chemistry and geological materials of media, from metals to dust.
Jussi Parikka is a writer, media theorist and professor in technological culture & aesthetics at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). He is also Docent of Digital Culture Theory at University of Turku, Finland and Honorary Visiting Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. http://jussiparikka.net/
J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian-born UK-based artist, writer, researcher, performer, and maker of maps, zines, books, poetics, very short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction, and non-linear, hypermedia, and computer-generated narratives. http://luckysoap.com
Massive Media: A Geology of Media book review.
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