How do we imagine the ocean bed? Who owns the sea floor? What does our obsession with shipwrecks such as the Titanic tell us about ourselves? What is the history of the deepwater extractive economy? And its future? In this episode of the Blue Humanities podcast, Jonathan Bate talks to Lisa Han, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College about her new book, Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor (University of Minnesota Press), in which we learn how media of various kinds - photography, sonar, mapping - have shaped our understanding of the depths of the oceans.You can follow Jonathan on Twitter/X here and the Humanities Institute here.For more on ASU's Blue Humanities Initiative, follow this link.New episodes featuring leading scholars will be uploaded regularly.This episode was edited by Dave Waugh at Scrubcast.Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).
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Shakespeare and the Sea
“There are some who are oceanic in effect,” pronounced Victor Hugo with regard to Shakespeare. “As for the sea, it thunders in passage after Shakespearian passage, and is indeed Shakespeare’s main poetic symbol, its roughness especially being used over and over again to impress on us a sense of man’s turbulent existence,” wrote the critic G. Wilson Knight. In the first of a series of five new Blue Humanities podcasts, Jonathan Bate talks to Professor Peter Womack about his new book Shakespeare, The Sea and the Stage (Edinburgh University Press), a lively study that places Shakespeare in the context of his own maritime moment, but also shows how his language of sea and ocean roars through the ages.You can follow Jonathan on Twitter/X here and the Humanities Institute here.For more on ASU's Blue Humanities Initiative, follow this link.New episodes featuring leading scholars will be uploaded regularly.This episode was edited by Dave Waugh at Scrubcast.Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).
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Noah's Arkive
In a world of torrential storms and rising sea levels, what can we learn from the ancient and enduring story of Noah's ark? In this episode, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates talk about their wittily-titled book Noah's Arkive. Animals going in two by two (or in some cases fourteen by fourteen), the raven, the dove, the rainbow, the curse upon Ham, above all the ark itself as a place of shelter and safety for some, but exclusion and exposure for others: these are ideas and images that have resonated and been reinterpreted down the ages, with many notable reconfigurations in contemporary speculative fiction, where a spaceship -- or even spaceship earth -- is another ark. Come aboard, but also think about those who are left marooned outside ...You can follow Jonathan on Twitter/X here and the Humanities Institute here.For more on ASU's Blue Humanities Initiative, follow this link.New episodes featuring leading scholars will be uploaded regularly.This episode was edited by Dave Waugh at Scrubcast.Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).
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From Unincorporated Pacific Territory
In this episode of the Blue Humanities podcast of the Humanities Institute at Arizona State University, presenter Jonathan Bate is in conversation with CHamoru poet, critic, environmentalist and activist Craig Santos Perez (X: @craigsperez). They talk about the history of his native island of Guam in the Pacific -- from Spanish colonial outpost to American military base and tourist destination. Listen for an array of fascinating, often tragic stories: how indigenous language was extirpated; how a snake entered Paradise and destroyed the native ecology, rendering the beautiful Micronesian Kingfisher extinct in the wild; and how SPAM (the processed meat, not the junk email) crossed the Pacific. Craig discusses his multi-volume poetry sequence from unincorporated territory, his ecopoetic collection Habitat Threshold and his navigation of a new critical seascape. Along the way, he reads his powerful poem "ars pasifika" -- and Jonathan introduces a comparison between Guam and the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.You can follow Jonathan on Twitter/X here and the Humanities Institute here.For more on ASU's Blue Humanities Initiative, follow this link.New episodes featuring leading scholars will be uploaded regularly.This episode was edited by Dave Waugh at Scrubcast.Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).
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Sailing with Ahab and Sailing Alone
In this episode of the Blue Humanities podcast of the Humanities Institute at Arizona State University, presenter Jonathan Bate is in conversation with maritime voyager, historian and literary scholar Richard J. King. They talk about lobsters, cormorants (why was this bird associated with the devil?), whales, coral, frigatebirds, walruses and why people are moved to sail the oceans alone -- and then write books about the experience. Above all, they share their enthusiasm for Herman Melville's maritime masterpiece Moby-Dick and ask how a book about killing whales might actually be a proto-ecological text.You can follow Jonathan on Twitter/X here and the Humanities Institute here.For more on ASU's Blue Humanities Initiative, follow this link.New episodes featuring leading scholars will be uploaded regularly.This episode was edited by Dave Waugh at Scrubcast.Music: from Claude Debussy, La Mer (rights-free recording).
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New approaches to humanities and arts disciplines, exploring the relationship between humankind and the oceans. From the Humanities Institute of Arizona State University, hosted by Professor Jonathan Bate.
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