Description:
Enduring Digital Damage presents rhetorical stories of digitality's connection to land, water, and landscapes and its implication in conditions of environmental harm. Dustin Edwards presents a compelling study of power, influence, labor, and sustainability, imploring readers to imagine a less harmful digital future.
Review Quotes:
"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 The Data Fix podcast and an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University.
"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