Saturation : An Elemental Politics.

Jue, Melody.

Saturation : An Elemental Politics. - 1 online resource (345 pages) - Elements Ser. . - Elements Ser. .

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Thinking with Saturation Beyond Water: Thresholds, Phase Change, and The Precipitate / Melody Jue and Rafico Ruiz -- Water -- 1. The Colors of Saturated Seas / Stefan Helmreich -- 2. Hydromedia: From Water Literacy to The Ethics of Saturation / Joanna Zylinska -- 3. Fossil Fuels, Fossil Waters: Aquifers, Pipelines, and Indigenous Water Rights / Avery Slater -- Thresholds -- 4. Sonic Saturation and Militarized Subjectivity in Cold War Submarine Films / John Shiga -- 5. Wireless Saturation / Rahul Mukherjee -- 6. Saturation as A Logic of Enclosure? / Max Ritts -- Phase Change -- 7. Becoming Undetectable in the Chthulucene / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- 8. The Media of Seaweeds: Between Kelp Forest and Archive / Melody Jue -- 9. Drought Conditions: Desalination and Deep Climate Change in Southern California / Rafico Ruiz -- Precipitate -- 10. Precipitates of the Deep Sea: Seismic Surveys and Sonic Saturation / Lisa Yin Han -- 11. Media Saturation and Southern Agencies / Bhaskar Sarkar -- 12. Oil Barrels: The Aesthetics of Saturation and The Blockage of Politics / Marija Cetinić and Jeff Diamanti -- 13. The Data Center Industrial Complex / M�el Hogan -- Afterword: Climate Change As Matter Out of Phase / Janet Walker -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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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