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Underwater Seascapes
While the European Landscape Convention adopted in Florence in 2000 by the European Council offers a public-action framework through a normative definition, the marine and submarine dimensions of landscapes are attracting growing interest from researchers worldwide. At a time when marine-conservation objectives are strongly endorsed by the Convention on Biological Diversity, the French Marine Protected Areas Agency, a public institution under the governance of the French Ministry of the Environment, has gathered prominent experts to draft the very first interdisciplinary overview of underwater seascapes, so as to initiate and lend direction to a wider reflection on this emerging research topic.
Protection des forêts contre l'incendie
Les incendies de forêt représentent un véritable fléau pour les forêts méditerranéennes. Chaque année, on estime à 50,000 le nombre d'incendies en région méditerranéenne et plus de 600,000 ha sont ravagés par les flammes.
Coral Empire
From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs. In the 1920s John Ernest Williamson in the Bahamas and Frank Hurley in Australia produced mass-circulated and often highly staged photographs and films that cast corals as industrious, colonizing creatures, and the undersea as a virgin, unexplored, and fantastical territory. In Coral Empire Ann Elias traces the visual and social history of Williamson and Hurley and how their modern media spectacles yoked the tropics and coral reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature. Using the labor and knowledge of indigenous peoples while exoticizing and racializing them as inferior Others, Williamson and Hurley sustained colonial fantasies about people of color and the environment as endless resources to be plundered. As Elias demonstrates, their reckless treatment of the sea prefigured attitudes that caused the environmental crises that the oceans and reefs now face.
Le chant des sirènes
Les océans occupent une place déterminante dans le discours social et il devient urgent d’exercer, en marge de l’action écologique, un travail critique sur le langage grâce auquel se pense et se raconte l’exploration sous-marine. Ce livre aborde les enjeux environnementaux, économiques et politiques soulevés par la plus grande accessibilité au milieu subaquatique que le perfectionnement du scaphandre autonome et l’invention du bathyscaphe ont permis depuis les années 1950. L’analyse littéraire permet d’aborder des textes scientifiques tout en faisant ressortir les motivations et les tensions qui ont animé leurs auteurs, ceux-là mêmes qui ont contribué à instaurer notre rapport actuel aux océans. Un rapport qui doit d’ailleurs évoluer, comme nous le rappelle l’Organisation des Nations unies qui a lancé en 2021 la Décennie pour les sciences océaniques dans une perspective de développement durable. Cet ouvrage magnifiquement écrit, très évocateur, s’adresse à tous ceux et celles que la littérature, la vulgarisation scientifique, l’océanographie, l’histoire maritime ou la biologie marine intéressent.
Mwana Kitoko
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The Aesthetics of the Undersea
Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses – and the opportunities it affords – for sensation, perception, inquiry, and fantasy. The Aesthetics of the Undersea draws case studies in such potencies from the subaqueous imaginings of Western culture, and from the undersea realities that have inspired them. The chapters explore aesthetic engagements with underwater worlds, and sustain a concern with submarine "sense," in several meanings of that word: when submerged, faculties and fantasies transform, confronting human subjects with their limitations while enlarging the apparent scope of possibility and invention. Terrestrially-established categories and con...
Luc Tuymans
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Luc Andrié
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Soul and Substance
A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half century. But in recent years, he has also written a series of unconventional essays that he calls “examination papers,” which he defines as “designated inquiries to myself.” In these linked essays, most of which resemble prose-poems, with only a few lines set on each page, Wright explores abiding artistic and philosophical concerns, including language, aesthetic form, knowledge, time, and death. Soul and Substance presents these pieces for the first time. Drawing on everything from African myt...
Membrane Proteins in Aqueous Solutions
This book is the first to be entirely devoted to the challenging art of handling membrane proteins out of their natural environment, a key process in biological and pharmaceutical research, but one plagued with difficulties and pitfalls. Written by one of the foremost experts in the field, Membrane Proteins in Aqueous Solutions is accessible to any member of a membrane biology laboratory. After presenting the structure, functions, dynamics, synthesis, natural environment and lipid interactions of membrane proteins, the author discusses the principles of extracting them with detergents, the mechanisms of detergent-induced destabilization, countermeasures, and recent progress in developing det...
