Oceaning
Governing Marine Life with Drones
1st Edition
Published on 19. January 2024
256 pages
978-1-4780-5901-1 (ISBN)
Description
Adam Fish examines how the use of drones in ocean conservation-such as using them to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs-can help create an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies.
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Adam Fish is a Scientia Associate Professor of Arts and the Media at the University of New South Wales, author of Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States, and coauthor of Hacker States and After the Internet.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
1. Beginning: Intimacies of Conservation Theology 1
2. Technicity: Touching Whale Exhale with Drones 28
3. Elementality: Confronting Whalers Through the Air and on the Seas 49
4. Governmentality: Flying to the Limits of the Law Against Shark Fin Poachers 72
5. Storying: Tracking Northern Fur Seals and Their Extinction Media 96
6. Crashing: Falling Drones and Abandoned Tern Colonies 119
7. Living: Coexisting with Sharks 140
8. Ending: Coral/Cultures 164
References 191
Index 223
1. Beginning: Intimacies of Conservation Theology 1
2. Technicity: Touching Whale Exhale with Drones 28
3. Elementality: Confronting Whalers Through the Air and on the Seas 49
4. Governmentality: Flying to the Limits of the Law Against Shark Fin Poachers 72
5. Storying: Tracking Northern Fur Seals and Their Extinction Media 96
6. Crashing: Falling Drones and Abandoned Tern Colonies 119
7. Living: Coexisting with Sharks 140
8. Ending: Coral/Cultures 164
References 191
Index 223
