Helmreich A Book of Waves

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2453-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Reihe: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helmreich, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Helmreich is Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, and Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World.