Atmospheric things: On the allure of elemental envelopment

Köseoğlu, Emine

doi:10.1080/1472586x.2020.1788239

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“…Scholars over the past decade and a half have provided a critical point from which to force a much wider 'vertical turn' away from the Euclidian tendency running through spatial disciplines (Graham, 2016) and ensuing forms of conceptual horizontalism (Graham and Hewitt, 2013;McNeill, 2005;Murawski, 2018b). By attending to the asymmetries of power relations and the ways they bear on societies, subjectivities and space (Adey, 2010b;Weizman, 2012) scholars have adopted a language that foregrounds the 'volumetric' (Elden, 2013;Graham, 2004), 'voluminous' (Bille´, 2020), 'spherical' (Sloterdijk, 2011a(Sloterdijk, , 2011b, 'aerial' (Adey, 2010a;McCormack, 2009), 'atmospheric' (Borch, 2014;McCormack, 2008McCormack, , 2018 or 'nephospheric' (Garrett and Anderson, 2018). Research through such frameworks has explored how vertical spaces are practised (Baxter, 2017;Ghosh, 2014), represented (Butt, 2018Hewitt and Graham, 2015) and imagined (Roast, 2019), suggesting that the ontological turn towards 'volumetrics' helps develop multimodal and multi-dimensional understandings of cities and urban spaces (Harris, 2015;McNeill, 2020).…”

Section: Concluding Remarks: Towards Transversal Perversionsmentioning

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Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance

Ebbensgaard,

Murawski,

Woodcraft

et al. 2024

Urban Studies

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In recent decades urban scholarship has witnessed a ‘vertical’ or ‘volumetric’ turn that has advanced understandings of the multi-modal power asymmetries cutting through and organising urban space. Yet, this volumetric scholarship often remains locked into binary critiques – of success/failure, inclusion/exclusion, luxury/abjection, dispossession/accumulation, arborescent/rhizomatic, horizontal/vertical. This special issue tinkers with the limitations of these (unwittingly) binary urban geometries and volumetrologies – material as well as metaphorical ones. By building the etymological opposition of ‘the vertical’ with ‘the radical’ into the title of the volume (via the Latin root radix, meaning ‘root’), we seek to make the radical itself work with geometric and morphological associations. The papers in this special issue proffer diverse ethnographic, geographic and conceptual material for considering and theorising urban verticality in concert with rather than in opposition to its incumbent horizontalisms, diagonals, curls, zigzags and scattered planes. As we completed work on the special issue, the horrors of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory played out before our eyes. Accordingly, we make use of the introduction to reflect upon the insight that the war in Ukraine brings to bear on the intersection between domains of the urban, the vertical and the radical in the fraught, tense, vicious, fragile – but resistant – urban worlds of today. In doing so, we seek not only to render more clearly visible the violent effects of power verticals on lives, worlds and cities, but also to find seeds of hope in emergent, insurgent forms of (vertical as well as horizontal, and neither vertical nor horizontal) resistance.

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Section: Concluding Remarks: Towards Transversal Perversionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance

Ebbensgaard,

Murawski,

Woodcraft

et al. 2024

Urban Studies

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“…This builds directly from McCormack's use of atmospheric 'envelopment' as a 'process through which atmospheres are disclosed and become palpable as elemental conditions of experiences via different configurations of bodies, materials and devices'. 55 To investigate envelopment, McCormack adopts the 'speculative device' of the balloon as a figure for 'doing atmospheric things', as 'objects, processes, or events that in some way disclose, generate, or intensify the condition of being enveloped by the element force of atmospheres'. 56 For the purposes of this article, I have adopted the tools of SUPERFLEX's It Is Not .…”

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Pluriversal scenographics and staging world feelings: climate crisis in SUPERFLEX’s ‘It Is Not The End Of The World’

Hann

2024

cultural geographies

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This article investigates the role of scenographics in staging climate crisis cultures. The art collective SUPERFLEX’s installation It Is Not The End Of The World (Copenhagen 2019) explored human-world relations through techniques of set design, lighting, sound and costume. Central to this was a detailed 1-to-1 scale replica of the UN Building toilets re-imagined as an archaeology of a future without humans. While described as an ‘installation’, It Is Not. . . is adopted as a case study that exemplifies the role of scenographics in irritating a sense of place and is argued as affording insight into the assemblages of place, world and atmosphere. Drawing upon Global South philosopher Arturo Escobar’s ‘pluriversal design’, I offer an argument for scenographics as a methodology when investigating world feelings in an era of climate crisis. ‘Pluriversal scenographics’ is proposed as a critical framework for the staging of nondualistic, relational and more-than-human ‘possible reals’. Pluriversal concepts are proposed as a model for renewing the political purpose of scenographic practice as a methodology for investigating world feelings. I conclude with a call for a renewed political task of scenography and the value of this perspective for theatre makers, arts professionals and cultural geographers.

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“…Hence, in addition to fog's viscosity and "enveloping" (McCormack, 2018) capacities, the ontological effects of concern in Serres's account also derive from what cultural theorist Fisher (2016) would perhaps refer to as its evocation of the weird and the eerie: fog's tendency to conjure up things that might or might not be there-just think of the eeriness of a misty landscape and the many fictional uses of fog as an index of mysterious and otherworldly agencies (e.g. King, 2018).…”

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Experimenting with fog: Environmental infrastructures, infrastructuring environments, and the infrastructure of infrastructure

Ojani

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In coastal Peru, conservationists and scientists attend to fog as something that may be captured and transformed into water. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among Limeñan conservationists who tapped into this atmospheric phenomenon as an alternative water source for use in fog oasis ecosystem reforestation. As I demonstrate, experimental engagements with fog had reconfigured conservationists’ and other experimenters’ understanding about the connections between the atmosphere, vegetation, and the underground, thereby bringing into view a hitherto imperceptible environmental infrastructure of groundwater production. The infrastructural potentials of the landscape were in turn foregrounded by the conservationists through comparisons with other geographies well-known for their capacity to produce water. Against this backdrop, the article argues for renewed attention to the infrastructural as a comparative effect resulting from simultaneous fore/backgrounding. Rather than mere grounds for second-order processes, infrastructural relations can be understood as situated between foreground and background. As environmental calamities complicate the infrastructure–environment nexus, it is no longer clear what infrastructures consist of, nor what they are capable of doing. In this context, an understanding of infrastructures as comparative effects is useful for describing and speculatively amplifying potentially more sustainable infrastructural alternatives.

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Atmospheric things: On the allure of elemental envelopment

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Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance

Introduction: Verticality, radicalism, resistance

Pluriversal scenographics and staging world feelings: climate crisis in SUPERFLEX’s ‘It Is Not The End Of The World’

Experimenting with fog: Environmental infrastructures, infrastructuring environments, and the infrastructure of infrastructure

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