eaction was swift. Users on Apple fan sites registered their dismay, noting Apple’s past record of green-friendly innovations and the perceived inconsistency between the company’s brand image and the decision to withdraw from EPEAT. Munic-ipal governments, universities, and other institutional buyers that had incorporated EPEAT standards into their procurement process announced their decision to review all Apple purchases. Bloggers and technology news sites like ArsTechnica and Slashdot covered the story extensively, fanning and amplifying the initial controversy.

On July 13, 2012, Apple rescinded its decision, announcing its intention to rejoin and renew its relationship with EPEAT

If Marxism seeks to disrupt the commodity fiction of the object by connecting it backward to moments of origin, discovering the congealed forms of human labor, power and interests that are built into objects at their moment of production, broken world thinking draws our attention around the sociality of objects forward

It is therefore precisely in moments of breakdown that we learn to see and engage our technologies in new and sometimes surprising ways.

If we are to understand maintenance, repair, and technology more broadly, scenes such as Burtynsky’s must be made empiri-cally and conceptually familiar, even normal.

aging ocean vessels (the bone and sinew of globalization)

So the world is always breaking; it’s in its nature to break. That break-ing is generative and productive, in ways that will be sketched later in this chapter.

Here, then, are two radically different forces and realities. On one hand, a fractal world, a centrifugal world, an always-almost-falling-apart world. On the other, a world in constant process of fixing and reinvention, recon-figuring and reassembling into new combinations and new possibilities—a topic of both hope and concern.

on a sort of Earth 2.0 in which many of the old socionatural bets are off.

Aspirations to remove the cloud from complex social territories and into the placeless space of the sea are an intensification of the same strategy of withdrawal and erasure that drives carbon neutrality.

These actions materially drive a transition to a low-carbon energy system for all consumers across the grid, with corresponding public health benefits and green jobs.

Like Boydton, it remains one of many nodes on a map, a promise of circulation, and a site of mostly unseen relations and consequences.

it is tempting to make a modest proposal and public appeal for someone to write a “handbook” about green machines—the sort of handbook that could be circulated to enable new ways of think-ing about electronic design and production.23 “Green technology” is not only seen as a major area of invention; it is also a complex and interest-ing terrain for new design projects.

systems of value shift and render some things worthless;

Circulation, as described throughout this study, is a method both for mapping electronic waste as it congeals in and moves through diverse spaces and, at the same time, for registering the often amorphous or mutable arrangements of electronics and electronic residues.60

These sites and fossils are microchips in Silicon Val-ley; screens used in market transactions of the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system (NASDAQ); plastics—in the form of housing, packaging, and more—as they move through the spaces of shipping and receiving, consumption and disposability; memory devices stored and at work in the electronic archive; and all the peripherals and scrap, from printed circuit boards to copper wires, which can finally be found in the landfill and salvage sites. These fossils and spaces of remainder each embody specific processes of electronic materialities and electronic waste. These are not just “waste sites” but also temporal zones that register the speed and volume of production, consumption, and disposal of digital technologies

fly swatters

The topic of electronic waste is situated at the intersection of a number of disciplines and locations.

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to grow lethally weary of the gag-and-get- over-it school of virtual-rape counseling

Kropotkin

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Afrofuturism,

Part of the pleasure of living while Black is the daily contraven-tion of expectations and stereotypes even when we know negative ex-pectations are levied against us anyway

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