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, Mel Hogan, Melody Jue, Rahul
Mukherjee, Max Ritts, Rafico Ruiz, Bhaskar Sarkar, John Shiga,
Avery Slater, Janet Walker, Joanna Zylinska
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