Climatic media : transpacific experiments in atmospheric control

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Climatic media : transpacific experiments in atmospheric control

Yuriko Furuhata

(Elements / a series edited by Stacy Alaimo and Nicole Starosielski)

Duke University Press, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-235) and index

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内容説明

In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan's empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically "condition" Earth's atmosphere and socially "condition" the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko's fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who sought to design climate-controlled capsule housing and domed cities. Furuhata's transpacific analysis offers a novel take on the elemental conditions of media and climate change.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control 25 2. Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting 48 3. To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media 80 4. Spaceship Earth: Plastics and the Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist Architecture 104 5. Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance 133 Conclusion: Explicating the Backgrounds 166 Notes 177 Bibliography 215 Index 237

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  • Elements

    a series edited by Stacy Alaimo and Nicole Starosielski

    Duke University Press

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