A diverse range of scientific, literary, and artistic accounts of deep-sea exploration, including work from the naturalist William Beebe and the artist Else Bostelmann as well as results of the Census of Marine Life that began at the turn of the twenty-first century.
A diverse range of scientific, literary, and artistic accounts of deep-sea exploration, including work from the naturalist William Beebe and the artist Else Bostelmann as well as results of the Census of Marine Life that began at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Stacy Alaimo is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor in English and core faculty member in environmental studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of several books, including Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (Minnesota, 2016).
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Contents Preface Introduction: Caring about the Abyss 1. Animating Surreal Creatures a Half Mile Down: William Beebe and Else Bostelmann 2. Packed Up in Tupperware and Russian Vodka: Deep-Sea Science Fiction and Nonfiction 3. Counting and Framing: The Census of Marine Life 4. Clickbait, Black Void, or Intimate Mediation? Abyssal Aesthetics after the Census Epilogue. Who Cares? Calculating the Value of Abyssal Life Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Contents Preface Introduction: Caring about the Abyss 1. Animating Surreal Creatures a Half Mile Down: William Beebe and Else Bostelmann 2. Packed Up in Tupperware and Russian Vodka: Deep-Sea Science Fiction and Nonfiction 3. Counting and Framing: The Census of Marine Life 4. Clickbait, Black Void, or Intimate Mediation? Abyssal Aesthetics after the Census Epilogue. Who Cares? Calculating the Value of Abyssal Life Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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