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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