Thrilled to share the release of two captivating new texts exploring Aesthetics of Weather and Aesthetics of Atmospheres
Diaconu, Madalina, Aesthetics of Weather
London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/aesthetics-of-weather-9781350416680/
This first book-length examination of an aesthetics of weather and climate is situated at the junction between environmental aesthetics, the aesthetics of atmosphere, and everyday aesthetics, without neglecting the implicit aesthetic of atmospheric sciences and the use of temperature and air(flows) in contemporary art. Diaconu’s approach connects the continental neo-phenomenology of atmosphere with the North American engaged environmental aesthetics and eco-phenomenology. Its scope of inquiry ranges from phenomenological analyses of temperature and tornadoes to atmospheric waste, and from the aesthetics of weather sayings to urban microclimates and the critique of weather consumption in the age of mass tourism.
Atmosphäre: polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren 51/summer 2024 https://polylog.net/heft/polylog-51
This issue of the journal polylog, edited by Mădălina Diaconu and Zhuofei Wang, collects papers in German and English that introduce to the European phenomenology of atmosphere (Jürgen Hasse), detect equivalents of this concept in Japan (Kantaro Ohashi) and the Arab world (Mounira ben Mustapha Hachana), explore analogies with Indian philosophy (Srisrividhiya Kalyanasundaram & Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram) and analyze social atmospheres on the example of Brazil (Paulo Gajanigo). The papers are preceded by two substantial introductions by the editors on characteristics, challenges, and implications of the theory of atmosphere and on its relevance to intercultural philosophy
