Diving with Donna Haraway and the promise of a blue planet

• Autores: Felicity Picken, Tristan Ferguson
• Localización: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, ISSN-e 1472-3433, Vol. 32, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 329-341
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It has been two decades since Haraway spoke about the �promise of monsters�, and seventy years since a novel kind of sea monster was created through the Aqua-Lung, giving �underwater worlds� better access to humans. By revisiting and examining the combinatory effects of these historical moments, this paper illustrates the �promise of scuba divers� who are somewhat monstrous in their potential to disturb common ideas about being human and life on land. In exchanging �sacred ground� for submersion beneath the sea, scuba diving redefines the limits of human experience and emphasises the historical and largely forgotten primacy of land-based coordinates in theorising human life. Under the sea, these coordinates are vastly altered so that even preconscious markers, like breathing, are transformed through a circuitry that includes humans, science, technology, and nature in a �body-incorporate�. �Immersion� becomes a threshold beyond which humans and nature, society and space are discovered anew in the reversal of the significance of territory to planetary life