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Climatic Media : Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control.

By: Series: ElementsPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022Description: x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478015192
  • 1478015195
  • 9781478017806
  • 1478017805
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Climatic mediaDDC classification:
  • 304.2/5 23
LOC classification:
  • QC928 .F878 2022
Other classification:
  • SOC052000 | HIS021000
Contents:
Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control -- Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting -- To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media -- Spaceship Earth: Petro-Economy, Capsules, and Geoengineering -- Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance -- Explicating the Backgrounds.
Summary: "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" the 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"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: 2023 New Titles
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC928 .F878 2022 1 Checked out 12/28/2024 50583020015339
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control -- Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting -- To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media -- Spaceship Earth: Petro-Economy, Capsules, and Geoengineering -- Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance -- Explicating the Backgrounds.

"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" the 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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