Withdrawing from atmosphere
An ontology of air partitioning and affective engineering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (0000-0002-8503-9208, The Westminster Law & Theory Lab, Westminster Law School, University of London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-167 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263775815600443 |
| OpenAlex | W2284570640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 47 |
The main objective of this text is to warn against atmospherics. However comfortable it might appear, an atmosphere is politically suspicious because it numbs a body into an affective embrace of stability and permanence. It becomes doubly suspicious because a body desires to be part of the atmosphere. For this reason, I rethink both affect and atmosphere ontologically rather than phenomenologically. I argue that an atmosphere is engineered by subsuming individual affects to what I call, following Sloterdijk, an atmospheric glasshouse. I suggest that this happens in four steps: a distinction between inside and outside through partitioning; inclusion of the outside inside; illusion of synthesis; and dissimulation. In order to do this, I begin with air as the elemental paradox of ontological continuum and rupture. I carry on with the passage from air to atmosphere while retaining the discourse around continuum and rupture. Finally, I indicate a way of rupturing the atmospheric continuum through the ontological movement of withdrawal from the atmosphere. The ultimate goal of the article is to sketch a problematic of atmospherics that puts together without synthesising an elemental ontology of continuum and rupture
Aesthetics · Algorithm · Atmosphere (unit · Atmospherics · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Illusion · Meteorology · Ontology · Physics · Sketch · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |