Scholia Graeca in Thucydidem Scholia vetustiora et Lexicon Thucydideum Patmense. Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Klaus Alpers

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage from analogue media, like records and tapes, to digital media, like CDs, something changed in the nature of media and in the relationship we have with music. Music became code, a sequence of 1s and 0s. A flow of pure information. The material structure of the medium itself was always supposed to disappear. But the physical has proved to possess an uncanny knack for returning. The CD was killed in the 1990s – first by emphasizing its physical nature, later by removing it altogether. But today the CD persists – a zombie medium, still popular amongst certain avantgarde record labels and Japanese consumers. Against all the odds, the spectre persists. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic. Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS DETERRITORIALIZING PREFACE Chapter 1: Two Origins: Alien or Core? Chapter 2: Seafood before History Chapter 3: Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles Chapter 4: Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene Chapter 5: Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate Chapter 6: Sailors: A Technological History Sailors Are Cyborgs Sailing Large Sailing by and Large: The Lateen Sail Gyre Navigation Would You Rather Be a Sailor or a Swimmer? Chapter 7: Interlude: Port of New York The City’s Wet Feet “Christmas on the Hudson” Longshoreman’s End “Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)” What We Talk about When We Talk about Newark “Ode to Walt Whitman” The View from the High Line Chapter 8: Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson Sea as the Opposite of Land Sea as Lure The Hierarchy of Nature Oceanic Vision Chapter 9: Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids Because We Need to Be Rescued A Marriage with Only One Soul A Marriage That Leads Only One Way Two Kinds of Labor Why We Love the Unknown Chapter 10: Wet Globalization II: Containers Chapter 11: Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson Chapter 12: Swimmers: Immersive Histories ACKNOWLEDGMENTS READING THE BLUE HUMANITIES Ten One-Volume Ocean Histories Ten Ocean Stories Ten Sea Lyrics Ten Blue Humanities Studies INDEX Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and acidification, but the mismatch between small bodies and vast seas also emphasizes the frailty and resilience of human experience. From ancient stories of shipwrecked sailors to the containerized future of 21st-century commerce, Ocean splashes the histories we thought we knew into salty and unfamiliar places. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic . "The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and acidification, but the mismatch between small bodies and vast seas also emphasizes the frailty and resilience of human experience.From ancient stories of shipwrecked sailors to the containerized future of 21st-century commerce, Ocean splashes the histories we thought we knew into salty and unfamiliar places."--Rabat "Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective"-- Provided by publisher