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Reading Underwater Wreckage - An Encrusting Ocean (Hardcover)
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Reading Underwater Wreckage - An Encrusting Ocean (Hardcover)
Series: Environmental Cultures
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Presenting a novel and needed theoretical model for interpreting
shipwrecks and other drowned fragments-the histories they tell, and
the futures they presage-as junctures of artefact and ecofact,
human remains and emergent ecologies, this book puts the
environmental humanities, and particularly multispecies studies, in
close conversation with literary studies, history, and aesthetic
theory. Earth's oceans hold the remains of as many as three million
shipwrecks, some thousands of years old. Instead of approaching
shipwrecks as either artefacts or "ecofacts," this book presents a
third frame for understanding, one inspired by the material
dynamism of sea-floor stuff. As they become encrusted by oceanic
matter-some of it living, some inanimate-anthropic fragments
participate in a distinctively submarine form of material relation.
That relation comprises a wide, and sometimes incalculable, array
of things, lives, times, and stories. Drawing from several
centuries of literary, philosophical, and scientific encounters
with encrustations-as well as from some of the innumerable
encrusted "art-forms" that inhabit the sea floor- this book serves
anyone in search of better ways to perceive, describe, and imagine
submarine matters.
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