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Aesthetics of Weather

Autor Dr Madalina Diaconu
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 sep 2024
In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather from various angles becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world. In response, offering the first in-depth and nuanced examination of the aesthetics of weather, this book underlines the relevance the concept has for scientific communication, for fostering sustainable patterns of behaviour and for rejecting the environmentally-damaging "consumption" of landscapes and fine weather. In addition, it provides examples taken from global, contemporary popular culture whilst calling attention to the socioeconomic and political dimensions of individual experience, demonstrating and analysing our fascination with, and cultural interpretations of, weather phenomena in our everyday lives.Within its three sections, the volume reinvents traditional phenomenological methods to create socially, politically and historically embedded 'phenomenographies' and explore the importance of aesthetic practices in shaping our experience of weather and climate. It also provides a deeper engagement with general topics, such as the relationship between perception, emotion, imagination, and cognition in our aesthetic experience of the weather, combining these with aesthetic analyses of the so-called "fine weather". With its broad scope of inquiry ranging from Aristotle to eco-phenomenology, from the pioneers of scientific meteorology to contemporary art, and from everyday aesthetics to geoengineering, this book argues that an aesthetics of weather inflected by greater knowledge and the taking of a critical stance towards aestheticism can become a valuable ally to climate ethics in the Anthropocene.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350416659
ISBN-10: 1350416657
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides examples from from global, contemporary popular culture to illustrate how social practices correspond with weather/climate in the real world

Notă biografică

Madalina Diaconu is Associate Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is also a member of the editorial boards of Contemporary Aesthetics, Studia Phaenomenologica, and polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, of which she was formerly Editor-in-Chief. She has authored ten books and co-edited twelve collective volumes on aesthetics, environmental ethics, the phenomenology of touch, smell and taste, and urban sensescapes.

Cuprins

ForewordPart I: The Phenomenology of the Atmosphere 1. Rescaling the Experience of Weather: From an Object of Aesthetics to a Matter of Concern2. Engaging with Physical Atmospheres: The Aesthetics of Weather3. The Sky Around Our Bodies: Climate and Environmental Perception4. Hotness and Coldness: A Phenomenological Approach Part II: Phenomenographies5. Experience, Knowledge and Appreciation in the Implicit Aesthetics of the Weather Lore 6. Grasping the Wind? The Aesthetic Participation, between Cognition and Immersion7. Longing for the Clouds: Does Beautiful Weather Have to Be Fine? 8. Singing (in Several Voices) in the (Same) Rain: Cultural Symbols and Cognition in the Aesthetics of Weather9. Tornadoes as Aesthetic Happenings and Figurations of the Invisible10. HEAT: Hermeneutics and Experience in the Aesthetics of Temperature Part III: Collective Practices11. The Weather Worlds of Urban Bodies: Summer in the City12. The Underground City13. Sensescapes in the Early Meteorology: John Tyndall's Travel Reports about the Alps 14. Para-aesthetic Environmental Practices and Climate Change15. Leave No Traces - A Paradigm Change in the Anthropocene?