Toxic Media Ecologies: Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary Crises (Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media)

This edited collection explores strategies of critique for responding to what many commentators now refer to as our current poly-crises. Today, economic, political, cultural, social, environmental and personal crises increasingly collapse together into situations of toxic shock which intensify repression and process lives into toxic waste.Drawing on the expansive understanding of mediation in the Canadian communication tradition deriving from Harold A.Innis and Marshall McLuhan and on eco-criticism of media environments, Toxic Media Ecologies foregrounds the objective subjectiveness of crises and considers how we as subjects are connected to each other through crises.Critical essays presented in Part One interrogate topics ranging from money and feminist science fiction to the online Alt-Right and racism.Parts Two and Three present theoretical reflections on research-creation engagements with pedagogies, ecology and poetry, as well as design, care-work, performance art and pedagogical