Saturación: una política elemental

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. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of being thoroughly soaked, while in chemistry it is the threshold at which something can be maximally dissolved or absorbed in a solution. Contributors to this collection expand notions of saturation beyond water to consider saturation in sound, infrastructure, media, Big Data, capitalism, and visual culture. Essays include analyses of the thresholds of HIV detectability in bloodwork, militarism's saturation of oceans, and the deleterious effects of the saturation of cellphone and wi-fi signals into the human body. By channeling saturation to explore the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of settler colonialism, Saturation illuminates how elements, the natural world, and anthropogenic infrastructures, politics, and processes exist in and through each other.

Contributors. Marija Cetinic, Jeff Diamanti, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lisa Yin Han, Stefan Helmreich, Mél Hogan, Melody Jue, Rahul Mukherjee, Max Ritts, Rafico Ruiz, Bhaskar Sarkar, John Shiga, Avery Slater, Janet Walker, Joanna Zylinska

Autor: Melody Jue
Editorial: Duke University Press
Publicado: 05/11/2021
Páginas: 344
Tipo de encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Peso: 1.02 libras
Tamaño: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN13: 9781478011460
ISBN10: 1478011467
Categorías BISAC:
- Ciencias Sociales | Estudios de Medios de Comunicación
- Ciencia | Ciencias Ambientales (véase también Química | Medio Ambiente)
- Ciencias Sociales | Geografía Humana

Acerca del autor
Melody Jue es Profesora Asociada de Inglés en la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara, y autora de Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater, también publicado por Duke University Press.

Rafico Ruiz es actualmente el Director Asociado de Investigación en el Centro Canadiense de Arquitectura y autor de Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier, también publicado por Duke University Press.