Saturation

An Elemental Politics

AvMelody Jue,Rafico Ruiz

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of being thoroughly soaked, while in chemistry it is the threshold at which something can be maximally dissolved or absorbed in a solution. Contributors to this collection expand notions of saturation beyond water to consider saturation in sound, infrastructure, media, Big Data, capitalism, and visual culture. Essays include analyses of the thresholds of HIV detectability in bloodwork, militarism's saturation of oceans, and the deleterious effects of the saturation of cellphone and wi-fi signals into the human body. By channeling saturation to explore the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of settler colonialism, Saturation illuminates how elements, the natural world, and anthropogenic infrastructures, politics, and processes exist in and through each other.Contributors. Marija Cetinić, Jeff Diamanti, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lisa Yin Han, Stefan Helmreich, MÉl Hogan, Melody Jue, Rahul Mukherjee, Max Ritts, Rafico Ruiz, Bhaskar Sarkar, John Shiga, Avery Slater, Janet Walker, Joanna Zylinska

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-05
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Elements
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9781478011460

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Miljöteknik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

“How do elements accumulate and transform? Saturation assembles a fluid compendium for navigating the phase changes of materiality. Tracking kelp and oil, seismic surveys and submarine films, drought and floods, smart oceans and data centers, the chapters in this collection teem with ideas for how to work within the fluctuating conditions of environments, media, culture, and politics.” - Jennifer Gabrys, Chair in Media, Culture, and Environment, University of Cambridge “This volume is a tour de force of media theory: the contributors posit saturation not just as one thing that happens in or through or by various media, but as an original and urgent way to understand what media are and do. As a heuristic, saturation draws new lines of relation between issues such as climate change, extraction, militarism, energy, security, biopolitics, and Indigenous sovereignty, among others, in surprising ways. In short, thinking with saturation helps us to see our contemporary condition anew.” - Astrida Neimanis, author of (Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixThinking With Saturation Beyond Water: Thresholds, Phase Change, and the Precipitate / Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz 1Water1. The Colors of Saturated Seas / Stefan Helmreich 292. Hydromedia: From Water Literacy to the Ethics of Saturation / Joanna Zylinska 453. Fossil Fuels, Fossil Waters: Aquifers, Pipelines, and Indigenous Water Rights / Avery Slater 70Thresholds4. Sonic Saturation and Militarized Subjectivity in Cold War Submarine Films / John Shiga 1055. Wireless Saturation / Rahul Mukherjee 1236. Saturation as a Logic of Enclosure? / Max Ritts 144Phase Change7. Becoming Undetectable in the Chthulucene / Bishnupriya Ghosh 1618. The Media of Seaweeds: Between Kelp Forest and Archive / Melody Jue 1859. Drought Conditions: Desalination and Deep Climate Change in Southern California / Rafico Ruiz 205Precipitate10. Precipitates of the Deep Sea: Seismic Surveys and Sonic Saturation / Lisa Yin Han 22311. Media Saturation and Southern Agencies / Bhaskar Sarkar 24312. Oil Barrels: The Aesthetics of Saturation and the Blockage of Politics / Mariji Cetinić and Jeff Diamanti 26413. The Data Center Industrial Complex / MÉl Hogan 283Afterword: Climate Change as Matter Out of Phase / Janet Walker 306Contributors 313Index 317