McCormack Atmospheric Things

On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7173-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Elements

Derek P. McCormack analyzes artistic, political, and technological uses of the balloon to show how its properties and capacities are central to understanding how we sense, perceive, and modify meteorological and affective atmospheres as well as the force of the atmosphere in modern life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCormack, Derek P.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Envelopment 17
2. Sensing 35
3. Allure 55
4. Release 79
5. Volume 101
6. Sounding 121
7. Tensions 145
8. Hail 171
9. Elements 195
Notes 219
Bibliography 259
Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Derek P. McCormack is Professor of Cultural Geography at Oxford University, author of Refrains for Moving Bodies: Experience and Experiment in Affective Spaces, also published by Duke University Press, and coauthor of Key Concepts in Urban Geography.