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100 1  Gabrys, Jennifer. 
245 10 Digital rubbish :|ba natural history of electronics /
       |cJennifer Gabrys. 
264  1 Ann Arbor :|bUniversity of Michigan Press,|c[2011] 
264  4 |c©2011 
300    1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) :|billustrations 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tIntroduction : a natural history of electronics --
       |tSilicon elephants : the transformative materiality of 
       microchips --|tEphemeral screens : exchange at the 
       interface --|tShipping and receiving : circuits of 
       disposal and the "social death" of electronics --|tMuseum 
       of failure : the mutability of electronic memory --|tMedia
       in the dump : salvage stories and spaces of remainder --
       |tConclusion : digital rubbish theory. 
520    "This 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"--Publisher's description. 
588 0  Print version record. 
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650  0 Electronic waste. 
650  0 Electronic apparatus and appliances|xHistory. 
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650  7 Electronic waste.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728652 
650  7 SCIENCE / Environmental Science.|2bisacsh 
653  0 Electrical and nuclear engineering 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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