Shipwreck Hauntography

Sara Rich is a maritime archaeologist, art historian, artist, and author of speculative fiction. She is currently Assistant Professor of Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies at Coastal Carolina University.

"What would contemporary theory look like if it moved underwater? In her wonderfully written Shipwreck Hauntography, Sara Rich rewrites the history of modernity in terms of its sunken vessels. Shipwrecks are not dead masses in need of salvation, but are especially uncanny forms of living matter."- Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture "[...] Rich includes, and magnifcently so, her own art, doing so along with the text to drive home the book’s essential point, that wrecks are not dead, nor do they need us to 'save' them or resurrect them." - James P. Delgado, Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Vol. 17, Iss. 04

• Illustration List Preface: Hauntographies of Ordinary Shipwrecks 1. Resetting the Binary Bones Legacy (Marigalante) Liturgy (The Gresham Ship) Litany (Santa Maria) Liminality (The Nissia) 2. Broken Ship, Dead Ship Ontology (The Yarmouth Roads) Meontology (Holigost) Deontology (Mary Rose) Mereology (Argo and Ark) 3. Among the Tentative Haunters Conversion (Terror and Erebus) Inversion (Impregnable) Delirium (Belle) Desiderium (The Ribadeo) 4. Vibrant Corpses Entropy (Nuestra Senora de los Remedios) Negentropy (Magdalena) Putrefaction (Sanchi) Purification (Costa Concordia) 5. Macabre Simulacra Exploration (Melckmeyt) Exploitation (Thistlegorm) Eschatology (Batavia) Elegy (Bayonnaise) Postface. On Underwater Seances and Punk Eulogies Complete Works Cited Index