Integral Waste

Cubitt, Sean. 2015. Integral Waste. Theory, Culture & Society, 32(4), pp. 133-145. ISSN 0263-2764 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

It is not only the physical digital media that pile waste upon waste in an era of built-in obsolescence driven by over-production attempting to balance the falling rate of profit. Energy used in the manufacture, employment and recycling of devices belongs to a system where waste is not merely accidental but integral to the operation of cognitive capitalism. Oil and gas, uranium and hydroelectricity all prey disproportionately on indigenous peoples, who are turned into economic externalities along with their lands. A parallel is drawn between the waste of power in generation and transmission, and the exploitation of human energy as excess under a cyborg capital that increasingly treats all humanity as external.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414537316

Keywords:

cyborg, energy, environment, externality, indigenous

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Dates:

DateEvent
July 2015Published

Item ID:

13643

Date Deposited:

13 Oct 2015 15:27

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 16:12

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13643

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