Enduring Digital Damage

Dustin Edwards is associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies at San Diego State University. His work has been published in journals such as Computers and Composition, Enculturation, Rhetoric Review, and Present Tense.

"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"Enduring Digital Damage is well-researched, well-synthesized, and truly graceful in reckoning with unsettling theoretical 'truths' accepted in areas of digital, rhetorical, and posthuman theory." —Jennifer Clary-Lemon, author of Nestwork: New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species

• AcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Open Pit and Stories from SomewherePart I. Inheriting WorldsChapter 1. Dwelling with Digital DamageChapter 2. The Deep Conditions of Digital-Material RhetoricPart II. Storying WorldsChapter 3. DataChapter 4. MiningPart III. Inventing WorldsChapter 5. Invention at the End of This WorldChapter 6. After DamagePostscript: To Keep a Story GoingNotesReferencesIndex