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.
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.
Foreword / Daniel R. Reichman and Robert J. Foster ix Preliminary. Forward and Back xiii Preface. Wave Clutter xv Introduction. Significant Waves 1 1. From the Waterwolf to the Sand Motor: Domesticating Waves in the Netherlands 31 Set One First Wave: The Genders of Waves 71 Second Wave: Venice Hologram 79 Third Wave: Wave Navigation, Sea of Islands 83 2. Flipping the Ship: Oriented Knowledge, Media, and Waves in the Field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 91 Set Two First Wave: Being the Wave 141 Second Wave: Radio Ocean 148 Third Wave: Gravitational Waves, Sounded 154 3. Waves to Order and Disorder: Making and Breaking Scale Models inside and outside the Lab, from Oregon to Japan 159 Set Three First Wave: Massive Movie Waves 192 Second Wave: Hokusai Now 203 Third Wave: Blood, Waves 208 4. World Wide Waves, In Silico: Computer Memory, Ocean Memory, and Version Control in the Global Data Stack 211 Set Four First Wave: Middle Passages 242 Second Wave: Wave Power 250 Third Wave: Wave Theory ~ Social Theory 257 5. Wave Theory, Southern Theory: Disorienting Planetary Oceanic Futures, Indian Ocean 269 Postface. The Ends of Waves 301 Acknowledgments 305 Notes 311 References 339 Index 389
Foreword / Daniel R. Reichman and Robert J. Foster ix Preliminary. Forward and Back xiii Preface. Wave Clutter xv Introduction. Significant Waves 1 1. From the Waterwolf to the Sand Motor: Domesticating Waves in the Netherlands 31 Set One First Wave: The Genders of Waves 71 Second Wave: Venice Hologram 79 Third Wave: Wave Navigation, Sea of Islands 83 2. Flipping the Ship: Oriented Knowledge, Media, and Waves in the Field, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 91 Set Two First Wave: Being the Wave 141 Second Wave: Radio Ocean 148 Third Wave: Gravitational Waves, Sounded 154 3. Waves to Order and Disorder: Making and Breaking Scale Models inside and outside the Lab, from Oregon to Japan 159 Set Three First Wave: Massive Movie Waves 192 Second Wave: Hokusai Now 203 Third Wave: Blood, Waves 208 4. World Wide Waves, In Silico: Computer Memory, Ocean Memory, and Version Control in the Global Data Stack 211 Set Four First Wave: Middle Passages 242 Second Wave: Wave Power 250 Third Wave: Wave Theory ~ Social Theory 257 5. Wave Theory, Southern Theory: Disorienting Planetary Oceanic Futures, Indian Ocean 269 Postface. The Ends of Waves 301 Acknowledgments 305 Notes 311 References 339 Index 389
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