The deep seas epitomize how most ocean waters exist beyond state borders, legal protection, and cultural imaginaries.
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The deep sea comprises, by volume, 78.5 percent of the planet's habitat, a stunning mass compared with only 21 percent of the rest of the sea and the paltry 0.5 percent of land habitats.
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Beebe's observations-so often dominated by the captivating colors of the seas and its creatures-embody a nascent posthumanist philosophy in which human knowledge systems and terrestrial horizons are overwhelmed, overtaken, undone. Dry scientific epistemologies of rational "objectivity" become drenched with embodied aesthetic, emotional responses. And the "data" that are gathered drifts eluding systems or grids. The glimmers of a violet-black posthumanist onto-epistemology here may be more ethically significant than determining exactly what creature made that "lovely bright solid pale blue light:'
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As the black screens and pages dramatically stage each creature, perhaps these photos act in an aesthetic political manner, "reconfiguring the sensible" in Jacques Ranciere's terms, by posing heretofore invisible marine creatures for consideration.
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there's a language of light in the deep ocean, and we're just beginning to understand it