Jue / Ruiz Saturation

An Elemental Politics
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1304-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Elements

Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate as a way of exploring the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jue, Melody

Ruiz, Rafico

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Thinking With Saturation Beyond Water: Thresholds, Phase Change, and the Precipitate / Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz 1
Water
1. The Colors of Saturated Seas / Stefan Helmreich 29
2. Hydromedia: From Water Literacy to the Ethics of Saturation / Joanna Zylinska 45
3. Fossil Fuels, Fossil Waters: Aquifers, Pipelines, and Indigenous Water Rights / Avery Slater 70
Thresholds
4. Sonic Saturation and Militarized Subjectivity in Cold War Submarine Films / John Shiga 105
5. Wireless Saturation / Rahul Mukherjee 123
6. Saturation as a Logic of Enclosure? / Max Ritts 144
Phase Change
7. Becoming Undetectable in the Chthulucene / Bishnupriya Ghosh 161
8. The Media of Seaweeds: Between Kelp Forest and Archive / Melody Jue 185
9. Drought Conditions: Desalination and Deep Climate Change in Southern California / Rafico Ruiz 205
Precipitate
10. Precipitates of the Deep Sea: Seismic Surveys and Sonic Saturation / Lisa Yin Han 223
11. Media Saturation and Southern Agencies / Bhaskar Sarkar 243
12. Oil Barrels: The Aesthetics of Saturation and the Blockage of Politics / Mariji Cetinic and Jeff Diamanti 264
13. The Data Center Industrial Complex / Mél Hogan 283
Afterword: Climate Change as Matter Out of Phase / Janet Walker 306
Contributors 313
Index 317

Über Autor(innen)

Melody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater, also published by Duke University Press.

Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier, also published by Duke University Press.