Saturation : an elemental politics / edited by Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jue, Melody, 1986- editor.

Ruiz, Rafico, 1981- editor.

Series:

Elements (Duke University Press)

Elements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean--Philosophy.

Ocean.

Ocean and civilization.

Mass media and the environment.

Human ecology and the humanities.

Ecocriticism.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Saturation shows how underwater points of view have much to teach us about the nature of objectivity, teaching us to look for the ways that a terrestrial bias appears in the ways we speak about and orient to the world. The volume takes the ocean as a vital starting place from which to develop a method of milieu-specific analysis, calling attention to the differences between perceptual environments and how we think within and through them as embodied observers. Through discussions of science fiction literature and visual media, Saturation shows that attending to the ocean is just the beginning of developing a broader sensitivity to the role of milieu in the fields of media studies, literary studies, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. The ocean is not only a medium; the ocean is a vital milieu from which to reconsider what we have taken for granted about the nature of mediation, objectivity, and metaphor. By developing a method of oceanic displacement-and submerging media concepts in the ocean-this book is a science fictional exercise in speculation, exploring how we might think outside of our terrestrial habits by seeing things through the opacity of seawater"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The colors of saturated seas / Stefan Helmreich

Hydromedia : from water literacy to the ethics of saturation / Joanna Zylinska

Fossil fuels, fossil waters : aquifers, pipelines, and indigenous water rights / Avery Slater

Sonic saturation and militarized subjectivity in Cold War submarine films / John Shiga

Wireless saturation / Rahul Mukherjee

Saturation as a logic of enclosure? / Max Ritts

Becoming undetectable in the Chthulucene / Bishnupriya Ghosh

The media of seaweeds : between kelp forest and archive / Melody Jue

Drought conditions : desalination and deep climate change in Southern California / Rafico Ruiz

Precipitates of the deep sea : seismic surveys and sonic saturation / Lisa Han

Media saturation and southern agencies / Bhaskar Sarkar

Oil barrels : the aesthetics of saturation and the blockage of politics / Marija Cetinić and Jeff Diamanti

The data center industrial complex / Mél Hogan

Afterword: Climate change as "matter out of phase" / Janet Walker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Saturation.

ISBN:

9781478009740

1478009748

9781478011460

1478011467

OCLC:

1202753478