Saturation: An Elemental Politics by Melody Jue (English) Paperback Book

Description: Saturation by Melody Jue, Rafico Ruiz 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of being thoroughly soaked, while in chemistry it is the threshold at which something can be maximally dissolved or absorbed in a solution. Contributors to this collection expand notions of saturation beyond water to consider saturation in sound, infrastructure, media, Big Data, capitalism, and visual culture. Essays include analyses of the thresholds of HIV detectability in bloodwork, militarisms saturation of oceans, and the deleterious effects of the saturation of cellphone and wi-fi signals into the human body. By channeling saturation to explore the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of settler colonialism, Saturation illuminates how elements, the natural world, and anthropogenic infrastructures, politics, and processes exist in and through each other. Contributors. Marija Cetinic, Jeff Diamanti, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lisa Yin Han, Stefan Helmreich, Mel Hogan, Melody Jue, Rahul Mukherjee, Max Ritts, Rafico Ruiz, Bhaskar Sarkar, John Shiga, Avery Slater, Janet Walker, Joanna Zylinska Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 Cetini 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 Review "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 * Review Quote "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; it is an original and urgent way to understand what media is and does. 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." Details ISBN1478011467 Short Title Saturation Publisher Duke University Press Series Elements Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1478011467 ISBN-13 9781478011460 Format Paperback Subtitle An Elemental Politics Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Pages 344 Illustrations 41 illustrations Author Rafico Ruiz Edited by Rafico Ruiz Publication Date 2021-11-05 AU Release Date 2021-11-05 NZ Release Date 2021-11-05 US Release Date 2021-11-05 UK Release Date 2021-11-05 Alternative 9781478009740 DEWEY 304.27 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134955485;

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