"Listening carefully, the change in resonance effected by the abrupt change in salinity on either side of the crossing becomes apparent as this sharp differentiation of densities maintained by the sea lock appears in the acoustic environment of the installation. A volumetric cut instead of a transition between salt and sweet; an audible imprint of logistical infrastructure." https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/salinity-logistics-friction-notes-on-infrastructure-fieldwork re: #IJmuiden #Ruigoord #FieldARTS et al. h/t @poemproducer
Salinity, Logistics, Friction: Notes on Infrastructure Fieldwork
At IJmuiden, where capitalist infrastructure encounters and encloses the subsurface turbulence of the estuary, brackishness appears as an ecological disjuncture in which the material contradictions of transition policy and the real abstractions of logistical value are rendered startlingly concrete.