Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure

Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?

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Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure

Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?

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Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure

Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure

Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure

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Overview

Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783965580084
Publisher: ICI Berlin Press
Publication date: 10/06/2020
Series: Cultural Inquiry , #17
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.76(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

ELEMENTS

Weathering Ambivalences: Between Language and Physics / CHRISTOPH F. E. HOLZHEY 3

Radiating Exposures / ALISON SPERLING 41

Weathering the Afterlife: The Meteorological Psychology of Dante's Commedia / NICOLÒ CRISAFI AND MANUELE GRAGNOLATI 63

Scaling from Weather to Climate / DANIEL LIU 93

TRACES

Enduring Ornament / AMELIA GROOM AND M. TY 121

The Weathering of the Trace: Agamben's Presupposition of Derrida / DAMIANO SACCO 143

Glaze: Or Formulas to Get through Bad Weather / UMUT YILDIRIM 167

LAYERS

Weathering Weather: Atmospheric Geographies of the Guiana Shield / YOLANDA ARIADNE COLLINS 181

'Locked out in nature': Films on the European Asylum System, Latent Violence, and Ghosts / ANJA SUNHYUN MICHAELSEN 207

On Bad Weather: Heidegger, Arendt, and Political Beginnings / FACUNDO VEGA 227

FLOODS

Representing the World, Weathering its End: Arthur Bispo do Rosário's Ecology of the Ship / MARLON MIGUEL 247

Enduring Rain: On Vajiko Chachkhiani's Living Dog Among Dead Lions / CLAUDIA PEPPEL 277

Life Never Stops Being Violent: A Conversation / VAJIKO CHACHKHIANI AND CLAUDIA PEPPEL 289

Confined Weathers: Graciela Iturbide and Mario Bellatin's The Bathroom of Frida Kahlo/Demerol without Expiration Date / DELFINA CABRERA 295

References 311

Contributors 337

Index 341

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