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Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itself
Water Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, engaging posthumanism, biotheory, and other cutting-edge theoretical approaches.
From the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean, this rich collection is inhabited by migrants, port cities, and coral reefs. It explores the fruitful potential of water for literary, anthropological, and ethical studies, bringing both cohesive transdisciplinarity and fresh comparative perspectives to hydro-criticism. Taken together, the wide range of critical interpretative practices constitutes a signal contribution to the blue humanities.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Watermarks: Toward a Water Logics / yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Of Flood and Drought: Water Logics and the Shaping of Odessa and New Orleans / Olivia Irena Durand
Wave Lab Logic / Stefan Helmreich
The Wave as an Epistemological Challenge Today / Nathalie Roelens
Thinking from Multiple Oceans: Historical and Elemental Lineages and Futures of Ocean Geography(s) / Philip Steinberg
Mo[u]rning in the Mediterranean: Liquid Mortuaries and the Arts of Re-Membering / Supriya M. Nair
Water Necropolitics / Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
From Surveillance to Contestation: The Ebb and Flow of the Mediterranean Frontier's Aesthetic Regime. An interview with Charles Heller / Marie Sandoz and Anne-Katrin Weber, translated by Nicole Horne
Coralization: Coral Materiality in Khal Torabully's Poetry / Shanaaz Mohammed
Is the Sea History? The Marine Life of Recent Haitian Fiction / Martin Munro
Liquid Language / Aaron Pinnix
Between the Mountains and the Sea: Currents and Currency of Terrestrial Waters and Aqueous Idioms in Morocco / Matthew Brauer
Towards a Romantic Hydrocommons: Victor Hugo, Humanity, and Hydrology / Bradley Stephens
"Forever Folding and Unfolding": The Critical Depths of David Gascoyne's Poetics / Isabelle Keller-Privat
Afterword: Logics of Port Cities / Brian T. Edwards
Notes on Contributors
Index
