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Автор: Pulver Christian J.
Название: Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment
ISBN: 9781607329671
Издательство: Sterling
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ISBN-10: 1607329670
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 213 x 140 x 15
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Writing, information, and the biophysical environment
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Metabolizing Capital outlines a critical ecological framework to guide the theorization of writing and rhetoric in the dynamic contexts of Web 3.0 and environmental crisis.

The rise of the global cloud and the internet-of-things have ushered in a new stage of the internet that marks a transition from the celebrated user-generated content of Web 2.0 to the data-driven networks of Web 3.0. As social media networks have expanded, so has the amount of writing and communication we do online. This has created several valuable sub-layers of data and metadata about consumer-citizens that corporations and governments now routinely collect, store, and monetize. This frenzy to collect more data is contributing to several problematic social and environmental concerns as flows of information and capital dangerously accelerate how energy and matter move through ecosystems at every scale.

This book explores the planetary consequences of Web 3.0 and the vital role that writing and data production play in accelerating capital circulation, from concerns raised by the growing energy demands of the information industries, to growing streams of electronic waste, to the growing socioeconomic tensions arising as a result of information monopolies.

A posthuman, Marxist analysis of digital culture and writing, Metabolizing Capital contributes to and challenges current understandings of rhetorical agency and actor networks. Combining scholarship from writing studies, rhetoric, and composition with research in metabolic ecology, information theory, media studies, cognitive psychology, history, and new materialism, this book should be of interest to scholars in writing studies as well as others who study digital culture, ecological literacies, the history of writing and information, big data, and environmental concerns related to electronics and the information industries.

Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment, Pulver Christian J.