Book ID: CBB365768068

Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (2022)

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Yuriko Furuhata (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Book Series: Elements
Physical Details: 256
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Asayama, Shinichiro
Autzen, Charlotte
Bonnheim, Noah Byron
Boykoff, Maxwell T.
Dunst, Alexander
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Historical Records of Australian Science
Public Understanding of Science
Science Communication
Publishers
Routledge
Harvard University
University of California, Santa Cruz
Central European University Press
Columbia University Press
Harvard University Asia Center
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Earth sciences
Science and society
International relations
Mass media
Climate change
People
Dyason, Diana
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
Japan
Great Britain
India
Iran
Israel
Institutions
University of Melbourne
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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