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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
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the
evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools,
orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health
and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous
populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource
extraction of fisheries off Labrador's coast. In Slow Disturbance
Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how
settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls
infrastructural mediation-the ways in which colonial lifeworlds,
subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation
and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents,
maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents,
as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission's
infrastructural mediation-from its attempts to restructure the
local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the
coastline-responded to the colony's environmental conditions in
ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing
the mission's history and the mechanisms that enabled its
functioning, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and
infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler
colonialism and extractive capitalism.
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the
evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools,
orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health
and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous
populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource
extraction of fisheries off Labrador's coast. In Slow Disturbance
Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how
settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls
infrastructural mediation-the ways in which colonial lifeworlds,
subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation
and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents,
maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents,
as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission's
infrastructural mediation-from its attempts to restructure the
local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the
coastline-responded to the colony's environmental conditions in
ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing
the mission's history and the mechanisms that enabled its
functioning, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and
infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler
colonialism and extractive capitalism.
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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