I am pleased to have just signed a contract to write this new book for Polity. The first draft is due for mid-2024, so if all goes well this might be out sometime in 2025. I’ll add bits of writing as I go along to this blog under the ‘degrowth’ label. It should be an interesting journey!

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[from the book proposal]

Digital degrowth – radically rethinking our digital futures

Fears are growing that we are approaching the point of ‘peak digital’, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability.

This book explores how degrowth thinking and alternate forms of ‘radically sustainable computing’ might support ambitions of sustainable, scaled-down and equitable ways of living with digital technologies.

Drawing on the latest thinking from across the social sciences, ecological economics, political ecology, environmental justice, and computer sciences, Digital Degrowth is a call to completely rethink our digital futures in these fast-changing times.