An Underwater World of Walls
Machine Sensing, Maritime Sovereignty, and the Aesthetics of Undersea Surveillance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15030278 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Parry (0000-0002-2553-1321, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 891-910 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Event (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tae.2019.0058 |
| OpenAlex | W2982290669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
Undersea surveillance systems are proliferating across the world at a rate unprecedented since the Cold War. The central components of these systems are arrays of hydrophones fixed to the ocean floor that convert the underwater acoustic environment into graphic readouts. Machine sensing not only allows states to project sovereignty into the ocean's depths, it also generates novel aesthetic practices. From the programming of hydrophones to target specific frequencies to interpreting the visual representations of captured acoustic signals, surveilling the ocean is now largely a matter of learning to read the ocean as it is sensed by machines
Marine engineering · Ocean bottom · Political science · Seismology · Sovereignty · Underwater · Computer Science · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Geology · Oceanography
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |