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In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres
are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with
a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of
balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn
crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists
and writers, and driven technological development from meteorology
to military surveillance. By foregrounding the distinctive
properties of the balloon, McCormack reveals its remarkable
capacity to disclose the affective and meteorological dimensions of
atmospheres. Drawing together different senses of the object, the
elements, and experience, McCormack uses the balloon to show how
practices and technologies of envelopment allow atmospheres to be
generated, made meaningful, and modified. He traces the alluring
entanglement of envelopment in artistic, political, and
technological projects, from the 2009 Pixar movie Up and Andy
Warhol's 1966 installation Silver Clouds to the use of propaganda
balloons during the Cold War and Google's experiments with
delivering internet access with stratospheric balloons. In so
doing, McCormack offers new ways to conceive of, sense, and value
the atmospheres in which life is immersed.
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Tomas Saraceno (Paperback)
Tomas Saraceno; Text written by Italo Calvino, Jussi Parikka, Michael Marder, Franklin Ginn, …
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R888
Discovery Miles 8 880
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres
are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with
a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of
balloon flight in the late eighteenth century, balloons have drawn
crowds at fairs and expositions, inspired the visions of artists
and writers, and driven technological development from meteorology
to military surveillance. By foregrounding the distinctive
properties of the balloon, McCormack reveals its remarkable
capacity to disclose the affective and meteorological dimensions of
atmospheres. Drawing together different senses of the object, the
elements, and experience, McCormack uses the balloon to show how
practices and technologies of envelopment allow atmospheres to be
generated, made meaningful, and modified. He traces the alluring
entanglement of envelopment in artistic, political, and
technological projects, from the 2009 Pixar movie Up and Andy
Warhol's 1966 installation Silver Clouds to the use of propaganda
balloons during the Cold War and Google's experiments with
delivering internet access with stratospheric balloons. In so
doing, McCormack offers new ways to conceive of, sense, and value
the atmospheres in which life is immersed.
In Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the
kinds of experiments with experience that can take place in the
affective spaces generated when bodies move. Drawing out new
connections between thinkers including Henri Lefebvre, William
James, John Dewey, Gregory Bateson, Felix Guattari, and Gilles
Deleuze, McCormack argues for a critically affirmative
experimentalism responsive to the opportunities such spaces provide
for rethinking and remaking maps of experience. Foregrounding the
rhythmic and atmospheric qualities of these spaces, he demonstrates
the particular value of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the
"refrain" for thinking and diagramming affect, bodies, and
space-times together in creative ways, putting this concept to work
to animate empirical encounters with practices and technologies as
varied as dance therapy, choreography, radio sports commentary, and
music video. What emerges are geographies of experimental
participation that perform and disclose inventive ways of thinking
within the myriad spaces where the affective capacities of bodies
are modulated through moving.
In Refrains for Moving Bodies, Derek P. McCormack explores the
kinds of experiments with experience that can take place in the
affective spaces generated when bodies move. Drawing out new
connections between thinkers including Henri Lefebvre, William
James, John Dewey, Gregory Bateson, Felix Guattari, and Gilles
Deleuze, McCormack argues for a critically affirmative
experimentalism responsive to the opportunities such spaces provide
for rethinking and remaking maps of experience. Foregrounding the
rhythmic and atmospheric qualities of these spaces, he demonstrates
the particular value of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the
"refrain" for thinking and diagramming affect, bodies, and
space-times together in creative ways, putting this concept to work
to animate empirical encounters with practices and technologies as
varied as dance therapy, choreography, radio sports commentary, and
music video. What emerges are geographies of experimental
participation that perform and disclose inventive ways of thinking
within the myriad spaces where the affective capacities of bodies
are modulated through moving.
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