{"id":368,"date":"2024-03-20T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/?p=368"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T09:15:22","slug":"dark-cold-water-worlds-the-deep-blackfish-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/en\/dark-cold-water-worlds-the-deep-blackfish-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark &amp; Cold Water Worlds &#8211; The Deep &amp; Blackfish City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still softened by just having finished \u201c<a href=\"#thedeep\">The Deep<\/a>\u201d by Rivers Solomon, listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/7bBx5uPv2YgRIAFyXBWhEV?si=nKUu3NMUR1KFn8XF6qpKMg\">Drexciya <\/a>and trying to gather my thoughts, waving like seagrass. Just a few days ago I also finished \u201c<a href=\"#blackfishcity\">Blackfish City<\/a>\u201d by Sam J. Miller, which is why I\u2019m writing about both of them now, still fresh in my mind. They both embody worlds of water, one colder than the other. They\u2019re both concerned with climate change and filled with queer characters, and they\u2019re both speculative fictions, but the similarities kind of end there. Blackfish City is gritty and noir and action-packed, you can smell its dangerous street corners and follow its fast, fighting characters.\u00a0 The Deep is dark in multiple ways, both nurturing and terribly painful, it is a world of sound and vibration whose pace is that of myth. Below I\u2019ve tried to write a bit about them, in my quest to write some words about every book I read, and just a tad more about the ones I really enjoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1772&#038;ssl=1 1772w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1772\" data-id=\"370\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/?attachment_id=370\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg\" data-width=\"1772\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2434-1024x1024.jpeg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg?strip=info&#038;w=1772&#038;ssl=1 1772w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1772\" data-id=\"371\" data-link=\"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/?attachment_id=371\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg\" data-width=\"1772\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2363-1024x1024.jpeg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"blackfishcity\">Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How will life be after societal breakdown, after the climate wars? In \u201cBlackfish City\u201d by Sam J. Miller we read about the extreme poverty and extreme richness, the gang leaders and shareholders plotting their way upwards, the fighters trying to survive, gay sex and a fascinating woman from a peoples killed, sailing with an orca towards a floating city in the Arctic Circle. There\u2019s a mysterious disease affecting many people &#8211; the Breaks &#8211; and unknown software running the city, inequality and a dire housing crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cFine line between good business and a fucking war crime,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAin\u2019t that the goddamn epitaph of capitalism.\u201d (p. 306<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBlackfish City\u201d is certainly one of the contemporary science-fiction books to read on the housing issue. Housing becomes the core and center of the novel\u2019s plot, besides many other strands being picked up &#8211; of science gone rogue, ethnic cleansing, immigrant worker exploitation, and a strange \u201cnanobonding\u201d between human and non-human animals. It\u2019s a world exploding with today\u2019s issues, all crowded in the city of Qaanaaq, tall and rowdy, full of crime, protest and delicious noodle stalls. It\u2019s not surprising to read in the author\u2019s description that he\u2019s a community organizer because honestly, the novel is built on the attention to detail he gives to the social issue of housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jumping from one point of view to another, we\u2019ve got Fill &#8211; a young gay man who\u2019s economically privileged and kind of sex-obsessed; Kaev &#8211; a beam fighter who has trouble communicating; Ankit &#8211; an ex-scaler (parkour climber sort of), council-worker and Kaev\u2019s sister, Masaaraq &#8211; the orca woman, following an unknown, dangerous purpose, ready to kill for it, and Soq &#8211; a nonbinary youth who had to fend for themselves, trying to climb upwards by getting in Go\u2019s, a gang leader, favors (\u201c<em>Soq was beyond gender. They put it on like most people put on clothes. Some days butch and some days queen, but always Soq, always the same and always uncircumscribable underneath it all<\/em>.\u201d p. 42). Interestingly, the chapters are often separated by a \u201cCity Without a Map\u201d broadcast, a sort of podcast for whoever listens &#8211; the rags and the riches, as it is enjoyed and hated by people of all kinds &#8211; whose Author is unknown and whose importance to the plot grows as one reads on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cVillains can be stopped. But villains are oversimplifications.\u201d (p. 309)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>With jaw implants that translate all languages, buildings that change shape for security reasons, and humans who (kinda) control the animals they are nano-bonded to, with desire to conquer and lust for revenge, this novel is packed full and feels a bit too much, just as Qaanaaq probably feels like. I won\u2019t spoil it, but safe to say the action keeps raising and gathering speed towards the end as more keeps happening &#8211; revelations on the arrival of the orca woman, the connection between the characters, the cause and cure of the Breaks (which initially seems similar to the AIDS epidemic) and most importantly, the way to save one\u2019s family while fighting landlords (though kind of requiring an orca ally\u2026 well, one is reminded of the killer whale\u2019s attack on yachts, isn\u2019t it?).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My main criticism is that I wish more thought had been given to the human-nonhuman relationships, as the nanobonding peoples are quite central to the story. The non-human animals (the orca whose name we learn far too late, the polar bear Liam, the monkey Chim) don\u2019t get to have much depth and although they do influence their human bonders, it seems like the whole point of the relationship is for it to work in favor of the human, foremost. Besides, bonding to an unknown animal for life kind-of-seems like (forced) marriage to a stranger, but 100% times worse, because you always feel what they feel, never a moment\u2019s respite (from both sides). Unfortunately, it\u2019s a missed opportunity to truly explore what bonding beyond species might mean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, it\u2019s a wild ride, a bit rocky at the start and speedy at the end, but certainly interesting. Blackfish City\u2019s world feels raw and cold and very true, a mash-up of different real and imagined cities, a gritty place to return to imaginatively and be wary of when organizing for a different future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cStories are where we find ourselves, where we find the others who are like us. Gather enough stories and soon you\u2019re not alone, you\u2019re an army.\u201d (p. 224<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-372\" style=\"width:549px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435-12x12.jpeg 12w, https:\/\/mariamartelli.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_2435.jpeg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"thedeep\">The Deep by Rivers Solomon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A novella that takes you deep into a fully-fleshed world of darkness and sound, a meditation on the essence of remembering, history and identity, \u201cThe Deep\u201d by Rivers Solomon is a read you want to jump into all at once. Its currents will take you through warmth &amp; coldness, as the pain of the African people who have died in the trans-atlantic slave trade, thrown off ships, becomes core and center in this antiracist, anticolonial imagining of survival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all starts with Yetu, the historian, tasked with remembering all her people\u2019s experiences, since the very moment they started breathing underwater. A cluster and a multitude of too much sound, vibration and image, the History is a lot for Yetu to take in, and yet she must. The superb descriptions of living on the ocean floor and of Yetu\u2019s perceiving of the world around her detail sensory over-stimulation &#8211; Yetu was chosen to be a Historian because she was particularly perceptive, which could be translated (in Western terms) as neurodivergent. Each year, the Remembering takes place, the celebration in which she transfers the memories to the rest of the Wajinru, as they live completely in the moment otherwise, the past being too hard to bear. But this time, Yetu won\u2019t follow the rules. She\u2019ll break them. And thus, this story is born, and we are swept into it, chapter to chapter, exploring the world of the merfolk Wajinru, their beginnings and their ancestors, the power of knowing where you come from, the longing for a homeland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Forgetting was not the same as healing.<\/em>\u201d (p. 28) is what this story tells us, a story born out of a \u201cgame of Telephone\u201d, as explained by the band <em>clipping<\/em>. in the afterword. Yetu\u2019s universe is built on the song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7roZOFtrpGYjcLLFZc2bp4?si=1d1c3f163a794be0\">The Deep<\/a>&#8221; which in turn is inspired by Drexciya, the techno-electro duo who created the initial mythology, asking: \u201c<em>Could it be possible for humans to breathe underwater? A foetus in its mother\u2019s womb is certainly alive in an aquatic environment<\/em>.\u201d (p.158).&nbsp; A fascinating recognition of how ideas come to be and how far they can travel, this book adds another dimension to the lore by exploring the meaning of remembering &#8211; as communities and as individuals &#8211; by riffing off \u201cThe Deep\u201d\u2019s lyrical repetition of \u201c<em>y\u2019all remember<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am astounded at the multimedia universe these works create together, a womb-dark, nurturing, fantastical exploration of what it can mean to resist white supremacy and climate change. They embody what it means to look at a terrible moment in history with an Afrofuturistic sort of vision. I love that it\u2019s so short, giving it a foundational fairy-tale texture which lets you fill in the missing parts. It really feels like a story for a people. And I adore that recognition is given to the others who have contributed to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWe cannot understand a people that would willingly choose to cut itself off from its history, no matter what pain it entails. Pain is energy. It lights us. This is the most basic premise of our life. Hunger makes us eat. Tiredness causes us to sleep. Pain makes us avenge.\u201d (p. 130<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This novella moves one to look again at the past with the strange eyes, \u201cstrange fish\u201d eyes, to never forget the trauma of History. It reminds one to keep close the force of the seas, of the waters which birthed all life. And it\u2019s a (queer) world to return to, the mythical energies it summons being as deep as the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is belonging?\u201d we ask.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>She says, \u201cWhere loneliness ends.\u201d <\/em>(p. 49)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still softened by just having finished \u201cThe Deep\u201d by Rivers Solomon, listening to Drexciya and trying to gather my thoughts, waving like seagrass. Just a few days ago I also finished \u201cBlackfish City\u201d by Sam J. Miller, which is why I\u2019m writing about both of them now, still fresh in my mind. 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