Saturation: An Elemental Politics

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Saturation

An Elemental Politics

Edited by: Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz

In the series Elements

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478013044

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
THINKING WITH SATURATION BEYOND WATER: THRESHOLDS, PHASE CHANGE, AND THE PRECIPITATE Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
WATER
1 THE COLORS OF SATURATED SEAS Stefan Helmreich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 HYDROMEDIA: FROM WATER LITERACY TO THE ETHICS OF SATURATION Joanna Zylinska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3 FOSSIL FUELS, FOSSIL WATERS: AQUIFERS, PIPELINES, AND INDIGENOUS WATER RIGHTS Avery Slater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
THRESHOLDS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
4 SONIC SATURATION AND MILITARIZED SUBJECTIVITY IN COLD WAR SUBMARINE FILMS John Shiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5 WIRELESS SATURATION Rahul Mukherjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6 SATURATION AS A LOGIC OF ENCLOSURE Max Ritts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
PHASE CHANGE
7 BECOMING UNDETECTABLE IN THE CHTHULUCENE Bishnupriya Ghosh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
8 THE MEDIA OF SEAWEEDS: BETWEEN KELP FOREST AND ARCHIVE Melody Jue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9 DROUGHT CONDITIONS: DESALINATION AND DEEP CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Rafico Ruiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
PRECIPITATE
10 PRECIPITATES OF THE DEEP SEA: SEISMIC SURVEYS AND SONIC SATURATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
11 MEDIA SATURATION AND SOUTHERN AGENCIES Bhaskar Sarkar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
12 OIL BARRELS: THE AESTHETICS OF SATURATION AND THE BLOCKAGE OF POLITICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
13 THE DATA CENTER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Mél Hogan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
AFTERWORD: CLIMATE CHANGE AS MATTER OUT OF PHASE Janet Walker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344

eBook

Published: August 23, 2021
ISBN: 9781478013044