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[Commlist] New book: Climatic Media

Mon Aug 22 16:09:53 GMT 2022



*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**

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