Postgrowth Digital Futures: Digital Technologies, Degrowth and Radical Abundance

by Sy Taffel

Overview

What if digital technology worked for the planet and people? This book proposes a future where ecological sustainability and social justice come first, applying degrowth ideas to rethink our digital lives and systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529252583
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2026
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Why Do We Need a Postgrowth Digital Future?

1. Growth and Ecological Crises

2. Computation and Capitalism

3. Why Solutionism Won’t Fix the Anthropocene

4. Conceptual Tools

Part 2: Realizing Postgrowth Digital Futures

5. Devices

6. Infrastructures

7. Platforms

8. Digital Culture

Conclusion: Radical Digital Abundance and a Just Transition