Yuriko Furuhata

Climatic Media

Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

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Produktbeschreibung

Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, showing how a range of Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists developed technologies to monitor, condition, and modify climate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015192
• ISBN-10: 1478015195
• Artikelnr.: 61695248

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control  25
2. Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting  48
3. To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media  80
4. Spaceship Earth: Plastics and the Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist
Architecture  104
5. Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance  133
Conclusion: Explicating the Backgrounds  166
Notes  177
Bibliography  215
Index  237