Postgrowth Digital Futures, livre ebook

Applies degrowth and postgrowth thinking to digital technology for the first time;

Offers practical, actionable proposals across devices, infrastructures, platforms and culture;

Connects ecological sustainability with critiques of surveillance capitalism and data colonialism;

Speaks to academics, activists, policy makers and students interested in tech and sustainability.

How can digital technologies help address ecological crises instead of making them worse?

This book offers a bold vision for a fairer, greener digital future. Drawing on degrowth and postgrowth ideas, it challenges capitalism’s model of endless growth by focusing on limits, sharing and radical abundance. Taffel explores practical ways to redesign devices, platforms, infrastructure and digital culture to promote social justice, ecological balance and well-being.

Connecting sustainability with critiques of surveillance capitalism and data colonialism, this is a vital study that shows how technology can support a just transition rather than deepen inequality.

Introduction: Abundant Problems, Failing Solutions

Part One: 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 Two: Realizing Postgrowth Digital Futures

5. Devices

6. Infrastructures

7. Platforms

8. Digital Cultures

Conclusion: Radical Digital Abundance and a Just Transition