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In our "wireless" world it is straightforward to take the value of the undersea cable television systems for granted, but the stakes of these successful procedure are huge, as they are responsible for hauling almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network, Nicole Starosielski practices these cords from the sea depths with their landing zones on the sandy shorelines of the South Pacific, delivering them to the surface of media scholarship and making obvious the materiality of the wired network. In doing this, she documents the cable television network's social, historical, geographic, and environmental proportions. Starosielski argues that the conditions the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where in fact the network and the contacts it enables are made possible by the deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture, politics and geography. Associated the book can be an interactive digital mapping task, where listeners can trace cable television routes and listen to stories about the island cable television hubs.
