Nicole Starosielski is Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Preface. Edges ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Against Flow 1
1. Circuitous Routes. From Topology to Topography 26
2. Short-Circuiting Discursive Infrastructure: From Connection to
Transmission 64
3. Gateway: From Cable Colony to Network Operations Center 94
4. Pressure Point: Turbulent Ecologies of the Cable Landing 138
5. A Network of Islands: Interconnecting the Pacific 170
6. Cabled Depths: The Aquatic Afterlives of Signal Traffic 198
Conclusion. Surfacing 225
Notes 235
Bibliography 263
Index 281
