Books by Sean Cubitt

Sean Cubitt offers a large scale rethinking of theories of mediation by describing the ecological footprint of media. He investigates the energy, material, and space needed to create, operate, and dispose of electronic devices, and shows how changing how we use media is the only solution to planetary devastation.

Videography is an attempt to discover the conditions under which it is possible to speak, write and teach about the electronic media. A theoretical section tests the claims of various theses in art history, media and cultural theory to account for the variety of video practice in the contemporary scene.

Exploring the power and capabilities of video, this text describes how viewers have found a new cultural relationship through electronic recording. The study considers the roles of distributors, censors, technicians, reviewers and exhibitors as well as viewers.

This book investigates the aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world. It casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality.