|
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- THINKING WITH SATURATION BEYOND WATER: THRESHOLDS, PHASE CHANGE, AND THE PRECIPITATE -- WATER -- 1 THE COLORS OF SATURATED SEAS -- 2 HYDROMEDIA: FROM WATER LITERACY TO THE ETHICS OF SATURATION -- 3 FOSSIL FUELS, FOSSIL WATERS: AQUIFERS, PIPELINES, AND INDIGENOUS WATER RIGHTS -- THRESHOLDS -- 4 SONIC SATURATION AND MILITARIZED SUBJECTIVITY IN COLD WAR SUBMARINE FILMS -- 5 WIRELESS SATURATION -- 6 SATURATION AS A LOGIC OF ENCLOSURE -- PHASE CHANGE -- 7 BECOMING UNDETECTABLE IN THE CHTHULUCENE -- 8 THE MEDIA OF SEAWEEDS: BETWEEN KELP FOREST AND ARCHIVE -- 9 DROUGHT CONDITIONS: DESALINATION AND DEEP CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA -- PRECIPITATE -- 10 PRECIPITATES OF THE DEEP SEA: SEISMIC SURVEYS AND SONIC SATURATION -- 11 MEDIA SATURATION AND SOUTHERN AGENCIES -- 12 OIL BARRELS: THE AESTHETICS OF SATURATION AND THE BLOCKAGE OF POLITICS -- 13 THE DATA CENTER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX -- AFTERWORD: CLIMATE CHANGE AS MATTER OUT OF PHASE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX 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, militarism's 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 Cetinić, Jeff Diamanti, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lisa Yin Han, Stefan Helmreich, Mél Hogan, Melody Jue, Rahul Mukherjee, Max Ritts, Rafico Ruiz, Bhaskar Sarkar, John Shiga, Avery Slater, Janet Walker, Joanna Zylinska
|
