{"product_id":"enduring-digital-damage-rhetorical-reckonings-for-planetary-survival-paperback-softback-9780817362195","title":"Enduring Digital Damage; Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817362195","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnduring Digital Damage\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDustin Edwards (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817362195\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e202 pages, 4 b \u0026amp; w\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Using anti-racist, feminist, decolonial approaches, Edwards moves beyond documenting environmental damage in the Anthropocene, instead proposing actionable connections to land that recognize our complicity in the complex relationships between digital infrastructures and physical environments. Edwards employs a gentle, compelling writing style that advances environmental media studies through a rhetorical perspective, offering unique insights through careful attention to embodied politics.\" —Mél Hogan, host of \u003ci\u003eThe Data Fix\u003c\/i\u003e podcast and an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Deploying a digital-material rhetoric with acute focus on storying digital damage, Edwards aims to show us in this extraordinary—and extraordinarily timely—book how we might think about the digital in both rhetorically and materially ethical ways, aware not only of the damage that our tools do but of the ways in which they also call us into responsibility for each other and the planet.\" —Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEnduring Digital Damage\u003c\/i\u003e is well-researched, well-synthesized, and truly graceful in reckoning with unsettling theoretical 'truths' accepted in areas of digital, rhetorical, and posthuman theory.\"  —Jennifer Clary-Lemon, author of \u003ci\u003eNestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNetworks the intricate relationship between rapidly advancing digital technologies and environmental degradation and reveals the costs of our globally connected world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking a step back from the screens of electronic devices and exploring the profound impacts of digital technologies on our environment, \u003ci\u003eEnduring Digital Damage\u003c\/i\u003e lifts the veil on the \"hidden costs\" in our modern technological world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDustin Edwards traces key moments in the lifecycle of technology—such as the extraction of raw materials to the disposal of electronic waste—to uncover the often overlooked consequence of our digital age. He illuminates how data centers, mining operations, and other digital infrastructures contribute to environmental harm and how the rapidly increasing demand for land use and water access is essential to sustain our growing digital needs. Weaving together narratives of technological advancement and ecological destruction, Edwards presents a comprehensive analysis of the true cost of our digital lives. By drawing on case studies, cultural critique, and a critical examination of labor and sustainability, \u003ci\u003eEnduring Digital Damage\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the deeper histories and ongoing struggles that make our digital lives possible, urging readers to imagine the possibility of a less harmful and extractive world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Open Pit and Stories from Somewhere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Inheriting Worlds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Dwelling with Digital Damage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The Deep Conditions of Digital-Material Rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Storying Worlds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Data\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Mining\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III. Inventing Worlds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Invention at the End of This World\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. After Damage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePostscript: To Keep a Story Going\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574448156952,"sku":"9780817362195","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/enduring-digital-damage-rhetorical-reckonings-for-planetary-survival-paperback-softback-9780817362195","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}