Atmospheric Things

Derek P. McCormack

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Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, US, 2018

0822371235 / 9780822371236

Series: Book 1 of 9 - Elements

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In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists and writers, and driven technological development from meteorology to military surveillance. By foregrounding the distinctive properties of the balloon, McCormack reveals its remarkable capacity to disclose the affective and meteorological dimensions of atmospheres. Drawing together different senses of the object, the elements, and experience, McCormack uses the balloon to show how practices and technologies of envelopment allow atmospheres to be generated, made meaningful, and modified. He traces the alluring entanglement of envelopment in artistic, political, and technological projects, from the 2009 Pixar movie Up and Andy Warhol's 1966 installation Silver Clouds to the use of propaganda balloons during the Cold War and Google's experiments with delivering internet access with stratospheric balloons. In so doing, McCormack offers new ways to conceive of, sense, and value the atmospheres in which life is immersed.

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Title
Atmospheric Things
Author
Derek P. McCormack
Publisher
Duke University Press, US
Publication year
2018
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0822371235
ISBN 13
9780822371236
Item weight
408 grams
Series
Book 1 of 9: Elements

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