Saturation
An Elemental Politics
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2021
344 pages
978-1-4780-1304-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
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.
Content
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
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
