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Set against the backdrop of climate change, energy transition, and the expansion of industrial offshore extractions, Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor makes the case the historical developement of deep sea media technologies has been complicit in perpetuating logics of extraction, exploitation, and militarism in our global oceans. From towed hydrophones to networked seafloor observation, the hunt for resources had driven the imaging of the ocean floor and vice versa, imperiling fragile deep ocean ecosystems in the process.