Imagining Air : Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Konrad, Tatiana.

Contributor:

• Mitchell, Chantelle.
• Schaufler, Savannah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Air quality.
• Interdisciplinary research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2023.

Summary:

This book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect the complex and often conflicted nature of lives today.

Contents:

• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Information on Contributors
• Introduction: Toward a Cultural Axiology of Air
• PART I: AERIAL POLITICS: POLLUTION, CONSUMERISM, AND CATASTROPHE
• 1 Fordism in Detroit, Consumerism in Los Angeles: A Brief History of Automobile Emissions Regulation and Lessons for Greenhouse Gas Pollution
• 2 Dirty Air: Literary Tropes of the Canadian Nation
• 3 Witnessing Challenger: Viewing Aerial Space through the Reverberations of Disaster
• PART II: AIR AND ART IN TIMES OF CRISIS
• 4 Speculative Fiction, Atmotechnic Ecology, and the Afterlife of Romantic Air
• 5 Respiratory Realism: Elemental Intimacies between “Carbon Black” and Red Desert
• 6 Rumpled Bedsheets and Online Mourning: Social Photography and the COVID-19 Pandemic—Haruka Sakaguchi’s Quarantine Diary and Marvin Heiferman’s Instagram account @whywelook
• PART III: TRANS-SENSORY AIR: BODIES AND ENVIRONMENTS
• 7 Envisioning Experiments on Air and the Nonhuman
• 8 The Importance of “Open Air” for Health: Environmental and Medical Intersections
• 9 “The Endless Space of Air”: Helen Keller’s Auratic Worldbuilding
• 10 Questions of Visibility: Aerial Relations across Society and the Environment, as Revealed by COVID-19
• Index Generated by AI.

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.

ISBN:

• 1-80413-117-2
• 1-80413-120-2

OCLC:

1450636882