Underwater Landscapes in Comic Books

Dû-Blayo, Laurence Le

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03440-9_8

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“…The men, in a sub‐aqua homage to ‘Astronauts’ and before them ‘Aeronauts’, were described as ‘aquanauts’. While they could not claim to be amphibious, capable of living in both air and water, where ‘the limit between the terrestrial and the underwater worlds disappears’ (Le Dû‐Blayo , 127), the borders between land and sea were as porous as they could be. No door separated them from their watery surroundings, only the pressure of the habitat kept the water at bay as they moved through a hatch to and from the depths of the sea.…”

Section: Dwelling In Cold War Geopoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Headaches and disrupted sleep were also common, and communication difficulties were experienced because of the high‐pitched quality of their voices. As Le Dû‐Blayo highlights, the sea is never a passive background – people ‘walk across it, they experience it, and it is often tested with intense physical involvement’ (, 127). This raises interesting questions when thinking about terrain beyond the terrestrial.…”

Section: Terrain and The Bodymentioning

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Immersive terrain: the US Navy, Sealab and Cold War undersea geopolitics

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2016

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Like territory, terrain is a term that has been tied to its etymological roots on terra. This paper seeks to release terrain as both concept and practice from the terrestrial through an analysis of the Cold Warera case study, Sealab II. This little-studied project, led by the US Navy, sought to establish the feasibility of sustaining life under the sea and in doing so, provides a rich site of analysis through which to explore the notion of terrain that exists in volume, rather than simply on the earth's crust. Within this immersive voluminous framework, the function of the body is also re-examined as both a site that experiences terrain, but also one that became a terrain of sorts during the Sealab experiments. The paper concludes by suggesting that understandings of terrain within geographical scholarship would be enriched were they to push off from the earth's surfaces and argues that there is a need to re-think terrain's relational aspects, re-root it from terra and re-orientate it towards the body.

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Section: Dwelling In Cold War Geopoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Terrain and The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%