"Set against the backdrop of climate change, energy transition, and the expansion of industrial offshore extractions, Deepwater Alchemy looks at oceanic media and its representation of the seabed in terms of valuable resources. Lisa Yin Han introduces the concept of extractive mediation to describe the conflations between resource prospecting and undersea knowledge production, prompting us to ask not whether we can tame the seafloor, but, rather, why and for whom are we taming it?"--
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"Set against the backdrop of climate change, energy transition, and the expansion of industrial offshore extractions, Deepwater Alchemy looks at oceanic media and its representation of the seabed in terms of valuable resources. Lisa Yin Han introduces the concept of extractive mediation to describe the conflations between resource prospecting and undersea knowledge production, prompting us to ask not whether we can tame the seafloor, but, rather, why and for whom are we taming it?"--
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