| Description |
1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Elements |
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Elements (Duke University Press)
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| Contents |
Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control -- Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting -- To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media -- Spaceship Earth: Plastics and the Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist Architecture -- Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance -- Conclusion: Explicating the Backgrounds |
| Summary |
"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" the 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Weather control -- Social aspects -- Japan
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Weather control -- Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
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Digital media -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Japan
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Weather control -- Social aspects -- United States
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Weather control -- Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Digital media -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Weather control -- Social aspects
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Japan
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021022482 |
| ISBN |
1478022434 |
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9781478022435 |
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