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Postgrowth Digital Futures : Digital Technologies, Degrowth, and Radical Abundance.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taffel, Sy.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- What if digital technology worked for the planet and people? This book proposes a future where ecological sustainability and social justice come first, applying degrowth ideas to rethink our digital lives and systems.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Abundant Problems, Failing Solutions
- Crises that keep getting worse
- Unfulfilled promises of the digital revolution
- Abundant problems
- Beyond growth
- Degrowth or postgrowth
- Book structure
- Part I Why Do We Need a Postgrowth Digital Future?
- 1 Growth and Ecological Crises
- Quantification: growth and GDP
- Growthism: growth as ideology
- Accumulation: growth and capitalism
- Metabolism: growth, materials, and energy
- Conclusion
- 2 Computation and Capitalism
- Political economy and platform capitalism
- Neoliberalism and the networked self
- Automation and hyperpolarization
- The fantasy of dematerialization
- 3 Why Solutionism Won't Fix the Anthropocene
- Determinism and solutionism
- Ecomodernist solutionism
- New extractive frontiers
- Exponential growth and digital technologies
- Efficiency and rebound effects
- Circularity and growth
- 4 Conceptual Tools
- Convivial tools
- Limits
- Radical abundance
- Decommodification
- Part II Realizing Postgrowth Digital Futures
- 5 Devices
- Reorienting innovation
- Detoxification
- Planned production
- From planned obsolescence to legislative longevity
- Enforced interoperability
- Convivial devices
- 6 Infrastructures
- Infrastructural invisibility and maintenance
- Models of infrastructural ownership
- Datacentres: how big is big enough?
- From hyperscale clouds to low-tech solar servers
- Wireless networks: how fast is fast enough?
- Liberating code: software and protocols
- 7 Platforms
- Advertising platforms
- Mastodon and alternative social media
- ActivityPub and the fediverse
- Cloud platforms.
- Streaming services and product platforms
- Rethinking resolution
- Socialized streaming
- Product platforms beyond streaming
- Cooperative platforms
- 8 Digital Cultures
- Advertising
- Education
- Digital health
- Transportation
- Finance
- Conclusion: Radical Digital Abundance and a Just Transition
- Limiting harms
- Conviviality and radical abundance
- Who benefits?
- Differences that make a difference
- How to get there
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781529252606
- OCLC:
- 1592432745
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