Author Archives: Elexis Williams Gray

Elexis Trinity is a PhD candidate in science and technology studies at Cornell University, where their work focuses on ocean histories, science, technology, and medicine. Their dissertation explores the history of scientific diving in the mid-twentieth century.
The image shows a museum display featuring an early model of a diving suit, diving shoes, weights, and a helmet. Additionally, an old book is exhibited, displaying sketches of diving suits and helmets.

Submarine Cyborgs: At Sea with Haraway and Jue

It is a Tuesday in May in upstate New York, and the world is greening all around me. A little rain falls from a clouded-over sky scattering bright neon gray light wherever it catches. Don’t be fooled by the stacks of books and papers beside my desk, or the false chiming of distant bells at the window. I am hunting a creature of the sea – a hybrid species, intimate with the queer spatialities of submarine worlds, the manfish. (read more...)