{"product_id":"9781350290006","title":"Reading Underwater Wreckage: An Encrusting Ocean","description":"Author: Quigley, Killian\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781350290006\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 216 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting a novel and needed theoretical model for interpreting shipwrecks and other drowned fragments   the histories they tell, and the futures they presage   as junctures of artefact and ecofact, human remains and emergent ecologies, this book puts the environmental humanities, and particularly multispecies studies, in close conversation with literary studies, history, and aesthetic theory.\u003cbr\u003eEarth's oceans hold the remains of as many as three million shipwrecks, some thousands of years old. Instead of approaching shipwrecks as either artefacts or \"ecofacts,\" this book presents a third frame for understanding, one inspired by the material dynamism of sea-floor stuff. As they become encrusted by oceanic matter   some of it living, some inanimate   anthropic fragments participate in a distinctively submarine form of material relation. That relation comprises a wide, and sometimes incalculable, array of things, lives, times, and stories. \u003cbr\u003eDrawing from several centuries of literary, philosophical, and scientific encounters with encrustations   as well as from some of the innumerable encrusted \"art-forms\" that inhabit the sea floor    this book serves anyone in search of better ways to perceive, describe, and imagine submarine matters.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636888555678,"sku":"UBD-9781350290006","price":61.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781350290006.jpg?v=1774398809","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781350290006","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}