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Though Arison was in mourning, and Sarah was initially skeptical about art, the two surprised themselves by discovering renewed joy in the work of the Impressionists and the settings that inspired them. In one unique volume, Arison ushers readers from Auvers to Arles, Giverny to Mont Sainte- Victoire, in her quest to rediscover the lives, dwellings, and paintings of the Impressionists.

These places are among the most beautiful on earth — the deserts of the Middle East, the Dead Sea coast, the ancient splendor of Luxor, the pyramids at Giza, and the eternal presence of Jerusalem itself — and their beauty all the more intense because of their rich historical and religious association. Breathtaking folio-sized reproductions of large-format photographs capture sacred vistas, images of awe, serenity, and ravishing beauty: the Oasis of Ain Umm-Ahmed, the view from the summit of Mount Sinai, a Bedouin orchard in the midst of a desert wadi, the dusty life of village and town, the Temple Mount, and the Wailing Wall.

Accompanying these photographs are Neil Folbergs delightful firsthand narratives recounting the humorous and harrowing adventures of a photographer in a politically troubled and naturally formidable land.

Books by "Neil Folberg" 4. Sort By Release Date Alphabetical. Advanced Filter:. Marcus George E. Kimble James T. Cantor Jean E. Summit Jeffrey Lyons Jeffrey L. How does the microorganismic, microcosmic sea reinforce or upend interpretations of the ocean as an extraterritorial space across which public, private, or national interests might be projected? How do framings of the "global" and "local" transform in its light? What cast do these visions take when diffracted through the techniques of genomic science?

This book tracks how marine microbiologists seek to make new scientific knowledge about biological life forms meaningful to social and cultural forms of life. It follows how they scale from microscopic to macroscopic, how they define parameters of social and scientific relevance. I approach my questions through an account of anthropological research I conducted from through among scientists in the United States, where much of the new marine microbiology is emerging. Microbial oceanography is a growing, still amorphously bounded field, made up of people who identify as microbiologists concerning themselves with creatures too small to see, including bacteria, single-celled eukaryotes like yeast, and viruses , marine biologists examining how organisms make their living in the sea , and biological oceanographers studying plankton, from seaweed on down to diatoms and smaller.

Strong traditions in microbiology and oceanography exist in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Japan, but I choose the United States because it is the country in which these two fields are most explicitly converging, and also because setting out from this national address permits me to inspect old and new tensions between the national and internationat public and private, aspirations of ocean science. Microbial oceanography comes of age in the wake of post-cold war shifts in funding for marine science from physical oceanography to biological oceanography; as military monies for sounding the sea have declined, there has been a rise in state funding for high-tech, genomic bioscience and in venture capital for biotechnology.

Because the claims of U. At the same time, because of their power, such claims demand to be taken seriously as preparing new futures and cosmopolitics. Alien Ocean examines how scientists working in the United States craft portraits of an oceanic r,! In his foreword to marine biologist Ed Ricketts's Between Pacific Tides, novelist John Steinbeck-who took Ricketts as the model for "Doc" in Cannery Row-wrote incisively about marine biological investigations of the ocean realm: "The world is being broken down to be built up again, and eventually the sense of the new worlds will come out of the laboratory and penetrate into the smallest living techniques and habits of the whole people.

Because of the sea's symbolic association with the origin and perpetuation of vitality, and because of its fluid capacity to link the smallest microorganism to the largest ecosystem, I am interested, too, in the ocean as a medium through which to explore shifting limits of the category of life in biological sciences.

If the way scientists view the ocean is transforming, the way they understand life is mutating, too. Bruno Latour, in The Pasteurization of France, documents how bacteriologists pushed microbes to the center of nineteenth-century hygiene programs. Microbial oceanographers argue that marine microbes are central to life on Earth, that the lowly microbe constitutes a force of leviathan significance. By "life forms," I mean those embodied bits of vitality called organisms, variously apprehended as ranged into species durable, but changeable genealogical kinds or as sorted into types occupying spaces of physical, metabolic, or ecological possibility e.

In a more expansive sense, however, I also mean the relations of creatures with one another, following here those biologists who regard organisms as inextricably situated in ecologies. When I write of "forms of life," I mean those cultural, social, symbolic, and pragmatic ways of thinking and acting that organize human communities.

The question of how to relate life forms to forms of life is of recent vintage. The very idea that life is a property that manifests in forms is modern, coming into being in coordination with the rise of biology as a discipline, solidifying around Michel Foucault, the omnivorous archeologist of ideas, argues that prior to the nineteenth century, "if biology was unknown, there was a very simple reason for it: that life itself did not exist. All that existed was living beings, which were viewed through a grid of knowledge constituted by natural history.

Once life had been rendered abstract, theoretical, the management of life forms within a specifically biological logic could become a question for social thought and practice. Foucault argued that the governance of biological processes emerged with such activities as public health and population control, which made it possible for nation-states to bring "life and its mechanisms into the realm of explicit calculations,"13 to organize human life forms according to the social imperatives of forms of life-of national belonging and colonial expansion, for example.

Eugenics is only the most extreme example of such endeavors. Foucault named these practices biopolitics. To translate this history into the classic idiom of anthropology, I write here of the relation of nature to culture.

Nature, importantly, has a genealogy distinct from biology, conveying into apprehensions of life forms additional meanings. Nature is not just that province scientists seek to describe but also a topology that retains a remnant of the mythic.

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In Western epistemology, nature has been imagined as a force to be dominated, tamed, struggled against. At the same time, nature has carried a strong JudeoChristian religious charge, as that which is moral, inevitable, God-given, perhaps even rationally or harmoniously designed. Placed in this second tradition, biology, understood as a genre of nature that grounds culture, has often been a reference point for legitimating social relations-for naturalizing power, authorizing forms of life with reference to the moral sturdiness of life forms.

In the age of biotechnology, genomics, cloning, genetically modified food, and reproductive technology, however, when human enterprise rescripts and reengineers biotic material, a founding function for nature is not so easily discernable.

Culture and nature no longer stand in relation as figure to ground. Life forms cannot unproblematically anchor forms of life.

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More, the stability of form itself is nowadays uncertain-whether on the side of life forms e. Not just life but also form is under stress, in motion. To tune into such transmutations as they have manifested in marine biology, I set the stage with a tale of two conferences on ocean science I attended at the outset of this research, gatherings held around the turn of the millennium, one during President Bill Clinton's administration, the second during the reign of George W.

These paired conferences mark the parameters of a double discourse on the sea, as alternately amiable stranger and enemy other: as an alien ocean. Chisholm's marine biological sea change. One might even say that the relation of nature to culture is at sea. This book scrutinizes this dynamic within a marine biology reorganized using the tools of molecular biology, genomics, and biotechnology. In marine microbiology, life is becoming unmoored from the boundaries of the organism into networks of connection-webs rendered legible through informatics and at the same time powerfully symbolized by the sea and its skein of microbial life.

Ed DeLong's colleague at MIT, Sallie "Penny" Chisholm, offers a PowerPoint precis of a paradigm shift in marine biology that has fishes, jellyfish, and microbes transmogrified into a web of genetic text. She compares the marine microbial component of a liter of seawater to the complexity of the human genome figure 2. Like the gene-which started its career as a metaphysical concept, gathered solidity as DNA, and now finds its borders blurred as scientists describe genetic processes as inseparable from ecological webs-life is being redistributed into a fluid set of relationsY Life is strange, pushed to its conceptual limits, spilling across scales and substrates, becoming other, even alien to itself.

Attended by delegates from oceanography, fisheries management, and ocean policy and timed to coincide with the United Nations Year of the Ocean, the meeting sought to set an agenda for twentyfirst-century care of the sea. Conferees agreed that the ocean was under pressure from climate change, overfishing, and pollution. At the same time, they envisioned the beleaguered sea as a realm of unexplored biotic varietya biodiversity that might contain resources for sustaining the planet and its resident humans.

A June 12 headline from the Salinas Californian summarized the proceedings with a pithy headline above a photo of a windblown, smiling Vice President Al Gore, a chief moderator of discussion: "Delegates agree: Sea is life" figure 3. By "life," participants referred at once to the ocean as a vital planetary fluid and as a symbol of life writ large; the sea, they observed, is the medium in which life on Earth originated and today constitutes more than 90 percent of the biosphere.

Marine biologist Sylvia Earle, a principal speaker at the conference and former head of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, drew from her book Sea Change, in which she wrote, "The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Front page, Salinas Californian, June, There is this extraordinary connection between who we are as human beings and what happens in this magnificent body of water.

What historian of biology Donna Haraway has diagnosed as a contemporary ecological "yearning for the physical sensuousness of a wet and blue-green Earth" is rendered experientially accessible in our own flesh. These formulations construe the human body as a reflection of an ordered, harmonious whole-a cosmos. We are not presented here with a biopolitical call for human populations to reorganize their relations with the ocean.

Neither are we called upon to inhabit a molecular biopolitics in which we take responsibility for, say, projects of genetic engineering that transform our life chances-an activity that anthropologist Paul Rabinow, discussing the rise of genetically articulated identity and community politics around, e. This is not rhetoric of biosociality, but of gaiasociality. While National Ocean Conference participants revered the sea as the matrix from which life emerged, like Ed DeLong they also tied it to the future.

Earle: "Our survival is utterly dependent on the existence of life on Earth-of biodiversity. With biodiversity a resource for resilience, a fountain of rejuvenation, it serves as a placeholder for the future. Conferees saw this future as one that might be safeguarded by enlightened national stewardship.

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The report elaborated on the promises of bioengineering: "The tools of marine biotechnology have been applied to solve problems in the areas of public health and human disease, seafood safety and supply, new materials and processes, and marine ecosystem restoration and remediation. Many classes of marine organisms demonstrate a wide variety of compounds with unique structural features that suggest medicinal, agricultural, and industrial applications. This future, unlike earlier projects of resource extraction, was envisioned as environmentally sensitive, sustainable.