{"product_id":"surfing-the-anthropocene-9781433179785","title":"Surfing the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurfing the Anthropocene\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the big tension between the speed and scale of digital media characterizes affective life on the public screen today. An innovative look launched in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, Eric S. Jenkins illustrates how the big tension is reflected in how we feel and talk about digital media. Exploring a variety of modes from following news on Twitter to discussion on Facebook, activism to witnessing police shooting videos, the book demonstrates how responses to the big tension make political activity more like videogames, with an immeditative temporality and attentional spatiality contrasted with meditative and tending modes such as gardening. As a near-monoculture of immeditative, attentional modes emerge, consumerism and affect privilege become reinforced in ways that make addressing the problems of the Anthropocene especially draining and difficult.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal concepts throughout the book, including the big tension but also\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eIntroduction –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMaking Sense: New Materialism and Affect Theory –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Time and Space of Gaming, Gardening, and Global Warming –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Digital Atmosphere: Of Love and Smartphones –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Digital Hydrosphere: On Twitter’s Billowing, Prodigious Flood –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Digital Lumisphere: On Surveillance and the Ethics of Witnessing –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Digital Climate: Hot Facebook Meets Cool Democracy – Lessons from the Garden: Ameliorating the Big Tension –\u003ci\u003e Index.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039673319767,"sku":"9781433179785","price":33.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433179785.jpg?v=1750944443","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/surfing-the-anthropocene-9781433179785","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}