ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the science of jellyfish research has become part of changing spatial practices of biological governance, consistent with the nomination of "the Anthropocene". It also shows how jellyfish are being figured as agents of ecological devastation alongside the human behaviors that facilitate them and displays how jellyfish are made to appear at once as the effects of human action. Following how jellyfish circulate amid those practices reveals some of the messy respatializations that are taking shape in the shadow of climate change and in the context of the Anthropocene. The two pathways through which jellyfish life has entered into social practices of governance and knowledge production are paradoxical. If Alaimo and Hayward have shown how looking at jellyfish might open up to another way of considering the connection to nonhuman organisms, following the practices of jellyfish science might offer us another way of considering life altogether.
