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The undersea network

By Nicole , Starosielski

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780822357551, 0822357550, 9780822376224, 0822376229
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5122130 bytes)
Series
Sign storage transmission.
Pages
311\297
Time added
2019-11-16 19:48:41
CablesInternationalSubmarine;Fiber optic cables;Telecommunication lin

Description

Nicole Starosielski examines undersea communication cable network, bringing it to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the ""wireless"" network's materiality. She argues that the network is inextricably linked to historical and political factors and that it is precarious, rural, aquatic, territorially entrench and semi-centralized. Circuitous routes: from topology to topography -- Short-circuiting discursive infrastructure: from connection to transmission -- Gateway: from cable colony to network operations center -- Pressure point: turbulent ecologies of the cable landing -- A network of islands: interconnecting the Pacific -- Cabled depths: the aquatic afterlives of signal traffic -- Surfacing.

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