Oceaning

Governing Marine Life with Drones

Adam Fish (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3001-0 (ISBN)

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Drones are revolutionizing ocean conservation. By flying closer and seeing more, drones enhance intimate contact between ocean scientists and activists and marine life. In the process, new dependencies between nature, technology, and humans emerge, and a paradox becomes apparent: Can we have a wild ocean whose survival is reliant upon technology? In Oceaning, Adam Fish answers this question through eight stories of piloting drones to stop the killing of porpoises, sharks, and seabirds and to check the vitality of whales, seals, turtles, and coral reefs. Drone conservation is not the end of nature. Instead, drone conservation results in an ocean whose flourishing both depends upon and escapes the control of technologies. Faulty technology, oceanic and atmospheric turbulence, political corruption, and the inadequacies of basic science serve to foil governance over nature. Fish contends that what emerges is an ocean/culture-a flourishing ocean that is distinct from but exists alongside humanity.

Adam Fish is a Scientia Associate Professor of Arts and the Media at the University of New South Wales, author of Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States, and coauthor of Hacker States and After the Internet.

Acknowledgments ix
1. Beginning: Intimacies of Conservation Theology 1
2. Technicity: Touching Whale Exhale with Drones 28
3. Elementality: Confronting Whalers Through the Air and on the Seas 49
4. Governmentality: Flying to the Limits of the Law Against Shark Fin Poachers 72
5. Storying: Tracking Northern Fur Seals and Their Extinction Media 96
6. Crashing: Falling Drones and Abandoned Tern Colonies 119
7. Living: Coexisting with Sharks 140
8. Ending: Coral/Cultures 164
References 191
Index 223

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements
Zusatzinfo	36 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3001-1 / 1478030011
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3001-0 / 9781478030010
Zustand	Neuware