Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

Yuriko Furuhata's book Climatic Media explores how climate engineering has been used to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres, focusing on the geopolitical contexts of technologies such as cloud seeding, artificial snowflakes, digital computing, cybernetics, and Nakaya Fujikos fog sculpture.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 22 March 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press

Yuriko Furuhata delves into the captivating realm of climatic media, tracing its historical trajectory from the early twentieth century to the present. With a keen eye on the legacies of Japan's empire-building and its Cold War alliance with the United States, Furuhata expands the scope of media studies to encompass the profound impact of technologies that chemically "condition" Earth's atmosphere and socially "condition" human behavior. She specifically focuses on the endeavors of Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists, working in collaboration with their American counterparts, to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres. Through a meticulous examination of a diverse range of technologies, including cloud seeding, artificial snowflakes, digital computing for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujikos fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, Furuhata charts the geopolitical contexts of climatic media. Her transpacific analysis provides a fresh and innovative perspective on the fundamental interplay between media and climate change, shedding light on the complex web of relationships and influences that shape our world.

Weight: 499g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478015192