Helmreich Stefan Helmreich

Book of Waves (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves' materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic and irreversible, wild and pacific, ephemeral and eternal. For researchers and their publics, the meanings of waves also reflect visions of the ocean as an environmental infrastructure fundamental to trade, travel, warfare, humanitarian rescue, recreation, and managing sea level rise. Interleaving ethnographic chapters with reflections on waves in mythology, surf culture, feminist theory, film, Indigenous Pacific activisms, Black Atlantic history, cosmology, and more, Helmreich demonstrates how waves mark out the wakes and breaks of social histories and futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478024538
• Artikelnr.: 68952634

Autorenporträt

Stefan Helmreich

Inhaltsangabe

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