This reading group will continue our conversations around media and the ocean, with a new focus on media infrastructures through the topic of ‘Media Infrastructures and the Ocean’. It will be chaired by Dr Giulia Champion and Dr Elis Jones and held at 12-1pm GMT on the 4th September. Please adjust to your own time zone. The meeting will be held on Zoom.

We are reading:

• Starosielski, Nicole. The Undersea Network. Duke University Press, 2015. Read “Preface: Edges” (viii-xiv) and “Introduction: Against Flow” (1-25).

• Gabrys, Jennifer. “Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World.” e-flux Journal 101 (2019), available here: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/101/272633/ocean-sensing-and-navigating-the-end-of-this-world/.

• Lidström, Suzanne, Adam Wickberg, and Johan Gärdebo. “Ocean Environing Media: Datafication of The Deep Sea,” pp. 114-132. In Environing Media, (Taylor & Francis, 2023).

Members will receive a Calendar invitation with the readings and Zoom link.

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