Christina Dunbar-Hester is a science and technology studies scholar and associate professor in the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. She is the author of Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism, winner of the McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research, and Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, winner of the Information Science Book of the Year Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology.

"The ports have not eliminated nature or automated away the human presence. Instead, they warp and engulf these lives. . . . Wherever you look, there is capital and its infrastructures, a ghastly Sublime. . . . Instead of the Alps, a dense network of machines and money. . . . A leitmotif in Oil Beach is the way that capitalism brutally sorts out life, marking some people for immense wealth and others for homelessness or cancer, tagging certain nonhuman species as economically useful or aesthetically pleasing while consigning others to death via pollution and climate change. Our geographies—material or imaginative—are never just."

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Precariously Perched in a PortChapter 2: Yes, We Have No BananasChapter 3: Coastal TranslocationsChapter 4: Aqua NulliusConclusion: Flux: Bridging to FuturesAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Timeline of Legislation and EventsNotesBibliographyIndex

Christina Dunbar-Hester is a science and technology studies scholar and associate professor in the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. She is the author of Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism, winner of the McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research, and Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, winner of the Information Science Book of the Year Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology.

"The ports have not eliminated nature or automated away the human presence. Instead, they warp and engulf these lives. . . . Wherever you look, there is capital and its infrastructures, a ghastly Sublime. . . . Instead of the Alps, a dense network of machines and money. . . . A leitmotif in Oil Beach is the way that capitalism brutally sorts out life, marking some people for immense wealth and others for homelessness or cancer, tagging certain nonhuman species as economically useful or aesthetically pleasing while consigning others to death via pollution and climate change. Our geographies—material or imaginative—are never just."

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Precariously Perched in a PortChapter 2: Yes, We Have No BananasChapter 3: Coastal TranslocationsChapter 4: Aqua NulliusConclusion: Flux: Bridging to FuturesAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Timeline of Legislation and EventsNotesBibliographyIndex

Christina Dunbar-Hester is a science and technology studies scholar and associate professor in the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. She is the author of Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism, winner of the McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Technology Research, and Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures, winner of the Information Science Book of the Year Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology.

"The ports have not eliminated nature or automated away the human presence. Instead, they warp and engulf these lives. . . . Wherever you look, there is capital and its infrastructures, a ghastly Sublime. . . . Instead of the Alps, a dense network of machines and money. . . . A leitmotif in Oil Beach is the way that capitalism brutally sorts out life, marking some people for immense wealth and others for homelessness or cancer, tagging certain nonhuman species as economically useful or aesthetically pleasing while consigning others to death via pollution and climate change. Our geographies—material or imaginative—are never just."

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Precariously Perched in a PortChapter 2: Yes, We Have No BananasChapter 3: Coastal TranslocationsChapter 4: Aqua NulliusConclusion: Flux: Bridging to FuturesAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Timeline of Legislation and EventsNotesBibliographyIndex