{"product_id":"140367","title":"Geology of Media ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtVORF7yRLWUZXju5FguJ.png?v=1764978161\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Geology of Media \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeyond the screen lies the Earth's long memory.\u003cbr\u003e From fossils to planetary computing,\u003cbr\u003e Expanding the horizons of media philosophy to planet Earth!\u003cbr\u003e Wires and data, waste and dust—the genealogy of technology begins in the ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Recently, as soon as China pulled out the rare earth card to counter the US tariff war, the situation suddenly reversed.\u003cbr\u003e We are helpless against China's strategy of building a meticulous rare earth supply chain over 40 years.\u003cbr\u003e China seems to have known that rare earths would be the ultimate game changer for all media and cutting-edge technology. \u003cbr\u003eGeology of Media is a book by Jussi Parika, a renowned Finnish philosopher and media theorist, that presents radical thinking about media.\u003cbr\u003e According to his argument, media is not just a means of human communication.\u003cbr\u003e This book traces the entanglements of technology and nature, the co-evolution of the Earth and information, and the extractive economics of digital capitalism through the material foundations that make up media: rare earth metals, silicon, minerals, and hazardous waste.\u003cbr\u003e Digital doesn't float in the air.\u003cbr\u003e It is a condensation of deep resources created over hundreds of millions of years, from the ecology of electronic waste created by modern technology, to pre-industrial geological accumulations, to geological materials made of copper, coltan, lithium and silicon. \u003cbr\u003eThis book, which simultaneously stimulates ethical and sensory thinking with a new critical spirit that crosses geology, ecology, the philosophy of technology, and media theory, will be an invaluable landmark for readers interested in media archaeology, ecological media theory, and the philosophy of materiality.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Preface to the Korean edition\u003cbr\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Materiality: The Foundation of Media and Culture\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e An alternative, profound time for media\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e Psychogeophysics of Technology\u003cbr\u003e 4.\u003cbr\u003e Dust and exhausted life\u003cbr\u003e 5.\u003cbr\u003e Fossil Futures\u003cbr\u003e Review: So-called nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Zombie Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003cbr\u003e Search\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e All media technologies imply in their models a certain relationship to ecology and nature, whether through resources or otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e Such media technologies utilize specific material production chains. \u003cbr\u003e…at the same time, media technologies are also important technological epistemological devices through which the concepts of ‘Earth’ and ‘planetary’ are constructed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I invite readers to consider this book within the context of the massive, planetary computing we call artificial intelligence (and its variants) and within the context of a geopolitical framework that defines media beyond interfaces to logistical media, infrastructure, and supply chains.\u003cbr\u003e Through this, I propose to view the contemporary media situation as a system that fundamentally governs the Earth by treating it as a resource, and further as part of the problem of extractivism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This short book explores the culture of science, the realities of technology, and artistic perspectives, placing science and technology in a multidisciplinary context related to media studies and the history of media art. \u003cbr\u003eWhile this book does not claim to be a comprehensive account of the relationship between geology and technology, it aims to share meaningful insights with those in the fields of media, art, and contemporary technology studies, including media archaeology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.12~13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book focuses on the connection between media technologies and their materiality, hardware, and energy with geophysical properties.\u003cbr\u003e That property is nature, enduring and bearing the weight of media culture, from metals and minerals to the waste load it produces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The conceptual foundation that guides this book is geology.\u003cbr\u003e Geology is the science of the ground beneath our feet, its history and composition, and the systematic study of the various levers, layers, strata, and interconnections that define the Earth. \u003cbr\u003eThis suggests that geotechnical and geotechnical work is not only a specific way of interacting with the solidity of the Earth, but also a sophisticated measurement technique linked to a broader awareness of the environmental composition of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Geology is not only about the soil, crust, and strata that form the foundation of our lives, but also about climate change and the political economy of industrial and post-industrial production.\u003cbr\u003e It connects with the broader world of geophysical life that supports biological life as much as it does with the technological world of transmission, computation, and storage.\u003cbr\u003e Geology has become a way to study the materiality of the technological media world.\u003cbr\u003e It has become a conceptual trajectory of contemporary cultural history and seeks creative intervention in it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Various related disciplines and fields of knowledge, such as geology, chemistry, and ecology, frame the modern world and give it a possible scientific structure. \u003cbr\u003eThese disciplines are strongly implied in the emergence of technological and scientific culture, which is the source of our media cultural practices.\u003cbr\u003e That is why I am interested in exploring the characteristics of media materialism outside the general definition of media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.12~13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If the rise of industrialization and the resulting sulfur dioxide emissions from mines, refineries, and coal-fired power plants since the 19th century have been treated by poets as dramatic aesthetic and ecological changes, either celebrated or critically narrated, contemporary technological art is doing similar work (though in many cases, it engages directly with the material world of geophysics on a practical level).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our relationship with the Earth is mediated by technologies and techniques such as visualization, sonification, computation, mapping, prediction, and simulation. \u003cbr\u003eThrough media, we perceive the Earth as an object of cognitive, practical, and affective relations.\u003cbr\u003e …geology unearths the secrets of the Earth and its planet, offering a perspective not only on the present moment unfolding with its potential for future development, but also on the past buried beneath our feet.\u003cbr\u003e Depth becomes time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 44~45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The underground is another important geological site in the geology of media (art).\u003cbr\u003e Hell is located underground, and in Western mythology it is defined as a place with chemical properties such as the smell of sulfur and the toxicity of carbon dioxide.\u003cbr\u003e This is why, since Virgil's Aeneid, the underworld has been known as a place where all animals that approach it die.\u003cbr\u003e The underground is central to the technological imagination of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e It is a space for the future that technology has been implementing since the 19th century, and an artistic avant-garde that breaks away from the mainstream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 43\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe history of media is a story about the relationship between organic and inorganic matter, as well as the materials needed for production, and the waste resulting from their use and misuse.\u003cbr\u003e Media history engages in the narrative of global expansion through colonialism and the resource rush.\u003cbr\u003e It draws a global map of increasingly depleted territories, including valuable resources like minerals, oil, and other energy resources like uranium.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.\u003cbr\u003e 71~72\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilosophy on the Strata: Expanding the Horizons of Media Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Geology of Media is a thoroughly material text.\u003cbr\u003e Yet, this book is metaphysical.\u003cbr\u003e Because it raises important philosophical questions such as ‘What is technology?’, ‘How does information work?’, ‘How do we perceive the world?’, and ‘How does the materiality of devices mediate between the non-human and the human realms?’ \u003cbr\u003eParika sees media not simply as mechanical devices, but as technological devices that shape sense and perception, time and space.\u003cbr\u003e He extends media theory to philosophy, ecology, earth science, and art theory, analyzing how media, along with their layered materiality, describe, remember, and construct the world.\u003cbr\u003e This theoretical work renews the methodology of media studies itself.\u003cbr\u003e It is a shift in thinking from the existing paradigm of analyzing ‘images’ or ‘codes’ to focusing on the materiality, globality, and environmentality of media.\u003cbr\u003e Philosophy is no longer an abstract concept, but is rewritten in the language of stones and earth lying on the strata.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Materiality of Media and Geological Time: Thinking from Deep Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt's easy to believe that what we commonly call digital media—smartphones, computers, servers, artificial intelligence—are made up of lightweight, intangible signals, but Yushi Parika asks the opposite question.\u003cbr\u003e Where exactly did media come from? He returns this question to material reality, not mere metaphor.\u003cbr\u003e Geology of Media understands media as a product of geological origins.\u003cbr\u003e That is, silicon, lithium, coltan, and rare earth metals that make up the media are mineral resources formed over millions of years inside the Earth.\u003cbr\u003e This is where the concept of 'deep time' comes into play.\u003cbr\u003e Parika emphasizes that the media devices we use are not simply products of the post-Industrial Revolution, but originate in the geological history of the Earth. \u003cbr\u003eThis perspective critically overturns the existing media discourse centered on 'technological progress' and reconstructs media as a stratified phenomenon where nature, humans, time, and matter intersect.\u003cbr\u003e Before information, media was a 'stone', a 'mineral', and a 'stratum'.\u003cbr\u003e Reading media back into geological time is a way of thinking that simultaneously questions its origins and rethinks the future of digital technology on a planetary scale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Intertwining of Technology and Nature: Ecological Media Archaeology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Parika argues that technology and nature, artifacts and the global environment, do not exist as separate binary constructs.\u003cbr\u003e For too long we have divided technology into 'human' and nature into 'non-human'.\u003cbr\u003e But if you look at the materials that actually make up a single smartphone, it's a completely natural product made up of metals and minerals mined from the Earth. \u003cbr\u003eThis is a proposal to understand the history of media not only as a history of mechanical progress or the development of communication technology, but also in its interaction with environmental and geological conditions.\u003cbr\u003e For example, Parika points out that contemporary media is dependent on massive extractive capitalism, and analyzes the geopolitical context of coltan mining and rare earth production in the Congo.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, this book can be read as a political critique of the expanded media environment, encompassing the resources, labor, waste, and global imbalances surrounding the media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe recursive ghosts of 'zombie media' as waste and debris\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The digital age is often described as a time of speed and advancement towards the 'latest technology,' but Parika looks at the other side of the coin.\u003cbr\u003e These are recursive ghosts: media that have simply retired from the scene, media that have been systematically made obsolete, abandoned devices, and discarded technologies. \u003cbr\u003eThis phenomenon, which Parika calls \"zombie media,\" offers a surprising and gift-like insight into the emerging field of media archaeology.\u003cbr\u003e He says that media theory can no longer remain limited to future-oriented perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e Another essence of media is the constant accumulation of debris and waste.\u003cbr\u003e Smartphones, CRT monitors, and floppy disks were all once cutting-edge technological products, but they will soon be relegated to electronic waste.\u003cbr\u003e \"Geology of Media\" interprets these wastes not as simple industrial byproducts, but as geological elements that directly impact the Earth's ecology.\u003cbr\u003e It also shows that abandoned technologies can be repurposed as new fields of creation and thought.\u003cbr\u003e Reflecting on what remains does not simply restore the past, but calls for a different sense of the future. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - 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