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A Book of Waves
Taschenbuch von Stefan Helmreich
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
Über den Autor
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.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478020417
ISBN-10: 1478020415
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Helmreich, Stefan
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 227 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stefan Helmreich
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,706 kg
Artikel-ID: 123546388
Über den Autor
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.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478020417
ISBN-10: 1478020415
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Helmreich, Stefan
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 227 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stefan Helmreich
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,706 kg
Artikel-ID: 123546388
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