Media and extraction

A brief research manifesto

Bibliographic Data

ID22222438
AuthorsPriya Jaikumar (0000-0003-3891-4994, University of Southern California), Lee Grieveson (0000-0002-5447-1372, University College London)
Year2022
Volume3
Issue2
Pages197-206
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Environmental Media (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2632-2463 • E-ISSN: 2632-2471
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jem_00085_1
OpenAlexW4323911371
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited17

This short essay is a polemical exploration of recent scholarship on media and resource extraction, with remarks on the necessary revisions this work entails to the purview and practice of studying cinema and media. Drawing on emergent works that elucidate the significance of media’s embeddedness in extractivist logics, we reflect on the ideas that propel them and the future conversations we hope they will provoke. As old disciplinary configurations no longer fit the task of understanding the technological instrumentalization of life in the face of climate breakdown, we consider the ways in which reckoning with modernity’s dependence on extractive industries and modes of labour reformulate media histories, the disciplinary study of media objects, our horizons of thought and our ways of being

Aesthetics · Art · Discipline · Embeddedness · Epistemology · Management · Modernity · Movie theater · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy

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