ISBN:
9781478024538
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (449 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.209162
Keywords:
Human ecology
;
Ocean and civilization
;
Ocean waves-Climatic factors
;
Sea level-Social aspects
;
Ocean-Philosophy
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Drawing on ethnographic work among oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry aquatic, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet and its future.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword / Daniel R. Reichman and Robert J. Foster -- Preliminary. Forward and Back -- Preface. Wave Clutter -- Color Plates -- Introduction. Significant Waves -- Chapter One. From the Waterwolf to the Sand Motor: Domesticating Waves in the Netherlands -- Set One. First Wave: The Genders of Waves -- Set One. Second Wave: Venice Hologram -- Set One. Third Wave: Wave Navigation, Sea of Islands -- Chapter Two. Flipping the Ship: Oriented Knowledge, Media, and Waves in the Field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Set Two. First Wave: Being the Wave -- Set Two. Second Wave: Radio Ocean -- Set Two. Third Wave: Gravitational Waves, Sounded -- Chapter Three. Waves to Order and Disorder: Making and Breaking Scale Models inside and outside the Lab, from Oregon to Japan -- Set Three. First Wave: Massive Movie Waves -- Set Three. Second Wave: Hokusai Now -- Set Three. Third Wave: Blood, Waves -- Chapter Four. World Wide Waves, In Silico: Computer Memory, Ocean Memory, and Version Control in the Global Data Stack -- Set Four. First Wave: Middle Passages -- Set Four. Second Wave: Wave Power -- Set Four. Third Wave: Wave Theory ~ Social Theory -- Chapter Five. Wave Theory, Southern Theory: Disorienting Planetary Oceanic Futures, Indian Ocean -- Postface. The Ends of Waves -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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