[Commlist] New book: Climatic Media

*Climatic Media***

Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

*Yuriko Furuhata***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478017806/climatic-media/_*

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“/Climatic Media/is a groundbreaking project that will have far-reaching 
resonances and implications across the humanities and social sciences. 
Given its critical rigor, deeply engaging analysis, and the wide-ranging 
readership it forges, /Climatic Media/is no doubt one of the most 
exciting books to mark this new decade. This is a field-changing work 
and a fascinating and extremely rewarding read.” *- Weihong Bao, author 
of **/Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 
1915–1945 /*

“Yuriko Furuhata’s /Climatic Media/is a timely, vital, and urgent book. 
At a moment of extreme disaster speculation and technophilic ambitions 
to re-engineer both ourselves and our planet’s climate, this book offers 
both critique and inspiration. Tracing an alternative Japanese genealogy 
of climate control, Furuhata convincingly demonstrates how conditioning 
the climate and conditioning ourselves are joint projects. In exposing 
the militarized, imperial, and contested epistemologies that construct 
our contemporary ideas of ecology, she also opens a route by which we 
might envision and design alternative forms of environmental 
management, forms that might be more equitable, noncolonial, and 
diverse.” *- Orit Halpern, author of Beautiful Data: A History of Vision 
and Reason since 1945 *

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.

*Yuriko Furuhata*is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of 
Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at 
McGill University and author of /Cinema of Actuality: Japanese 
Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics/, also published 
by Duke University Press.


*Duke University Press**| Elements | April 2022 | 256pp | 9781478017806 
| PB | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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