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
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.
"Derek P. McCormack offers a unique perspective on the relationship
between object and atmosphere ... This title brings a fresh lens to
topics as diverse as sensory perceptions, the concept of allure,
and understandings of volume. . . . Recommended. Graduate students
and researchers." -- C. Leachman * Choice *
"Atmospheric Things offers a bold new intervention in the study of
media infrastructures with incredible lucidity. . . . This book
will be instrumental to media scholars interested in new ways of
thinking about the intersecting lines of infrastructure, affect,
meteorology, envelopment, and even trauma and objecthood, where
both human and nonhuman agencies from bodies to balloons are
theorized in terms of the atmospheric. By inviting scholars to
consider that the allure of atmospheres rests in its resistance to
full perception and sense, and that the free-floating dirigibility
of balloons offers productive ways to imagine and experience
atmospheres, McCormack lays the groundwork for future work in
atmospheric infrastructures and opens room for the enchanting,
generative possibilities of simply letting go." -- Miguel Penabella
* Synoptique *
"A thoughtful, challenging and very perceptively written work. . .
. This book is very much about finding new and experimental ways,
using the atmospheric thing of the balloon, to make explicit the
atmosphere as a political, ethical and aesthetic commons." --
Marijn Nieuwenhuis * Social & Cultural Geography *
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