Finite Media

"Sean Cubitt has accomplished an astonishing feat of synthesis, reading across fields as varied as waste management, fiber-optic cable installation, semiocapitalism, and net neutrality. His wide-ranging and remarkable project extends beyond the reach of infrastructure media studies to show how global capitalism is remaking the planet in its own image. An innovative and dynamic book." - Nicholas Mirzoeff, author of The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

"Sean Cubitt offers the first theoretical analysis of how ecology in its original sense (and its related concerns for climate change and the environment) can not only inform media studies, but change what media we create and how we create it. Unique in its broad philosophical and social science perspective and full of fresh, original, and timely insights, Finite Media will find eager audiences in media studies, science and technology studies, and related fields." - Lev Manovich, author of Software Takes Command

"This insightful book is replete with illuminating examples and case studies, with subtle arguments that will likely prove prescient in years to come." - Niall Flynn, LSE Review of Books

"[T]he author provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework from which to study the important questions of environmental policy in the 21st century. Recommended." - M. A. Mueller, Choice

"Filled with cases of environment changes of contemporary age, Cubitt approaches the topic with journalistic clarity and deep comparative activist source-data, uncovering various types of criminal activities that he grounds with many background theories. . . . Similar to previous books, Finite Media is a rather short (and concentrated) reading, with an even lighter style that makes reading a very pleasurable experience." - Ana Peraica, Leonardo Reviews

"Sean Cubitt’s Finite Media is so much more than the title suggests: it is a meticulously researched and thoughtful intervention into the linkages between digital media and environmental degradation." - Sandra Robinson, Theory, Culture & Society