African ecomedia : network forms, planetary politics / Cajetan Iheka.
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Iheka, Cajetan Nwabueze (författare)
- ISBN 9781478013815
- Publicerad: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
- Engelska xiii, 322 pages
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- Waste reconsidered : Afrofuturism, technologies of the past, and the history of the future -- Spatial networks, toxic ecoscapes, and (in)visible labor -- Ecologies of oil and uranium : extractive energy and the trauma of the future -- Human meets animal, Africa meets diaspora : the conjunctions of Cecil the Lion and Black Lives Matter -- African urban ecologies : transcriptions of precarity, creativity, and futurity -- Epilogue: Toward imperfect media.
- "African Ecomedia positions Africa at the center of discourses on media ecologies, materiality, and infrastructure in media studies. Africa is the place where media technologies derive essential components and the place in which they often end up as obsolete matter. Examining film, photography, video art, sculpture, and 3D architectural rendering, Cajetan Iheka argues that African representational arts provide the appropriate site for understanding the ecological footprint of media, and they offer examples of the infinite resourcefulness crucial for an era of finite resources. Working with a method termed "insightful reading," African Ecomedia reorients the fields of African studies, media studies, energy humanities, and the environmental humanities. The decolonial impulse animating the book foregrounds Africa as site of novel epistemological possibilities and sustainable innovations in a time of planetary crisis"--
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- Massmedia (sao)
- Konst (sao)
- Människans påverkan på naturen (sao)
- Afrofuturism (sao)
- Ekologi i konsten (sao)
- Arts, African. (LCSH)
- Afrofuturism. (LCSH)
- Ecology in art. (LCSH)
- Figurative art -- Africa. (LCSH)
- Mass media and art -- Africa. (LCSH)
- Environmental sciences -- Philosophy. (LCSH)
- Human ecology -- Africa. (LCSH)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. (bisacsh)
- HISTORY / Africa / General. (bisacsh)
- Ecology in art (LCSH)
- Mass media (LCSH)
- Afrofuturism (LCSH)
- Art (LCSH)
- Afrika (sao)
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- NX587 (LCC)
- 700.96 (DDC)
- SOC052000 (bisacsh)
- I (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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