Luce Irigaray, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger, trans. Mary Beth Mader (Austin: University of Texas Press, {1983} 1999).
See Derek P. McCormack, “Elemental Infrastructures for Atmospheric Media: On Stratospheric Variations, Value and the Commons,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2016, 1–20; Cymene Howe, “Life Above Earth: An Introduction,” Cultural Anthropology 30, no. 2 (May 25, 2015): 207; Timothy K Choy and Jerry Zee, “Condition-Suspension,” Cultural Anthropology 30, no. 2 (2015): 210–23.
See Peter Adey, Air: Nature and Culture (London: Reaktion Books, 2014); Peter Sloterdijk, Terror from the Air (Cambridge, London: The MIT Press, 2009); Mark Whitehead, State, Science & the Skyes (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); Thimoty Choy, “Air’s Substantiations,” in Lively Capital: Biothechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011).
Michelle Murphy, “Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations,” Cultural Anthropology 32, no. 4 (2017): 494–503.
Rob Nixon, “Dead Metaphors, Dying Symbols and the Linguistic Tipping Point,” The Climate Change Project, September 5, 2018, ➝.
The networks of sensors, information panels, and apps that measure and attempt to make the air visible tend to be ubiquitous yet small, and often made invisible for political reasons. Nerea Calvillo, “Political Airs: From Monitoring to Attuned Sensing Air Pollution,” ed. Manuel Tironi, Max Liborion, and Nerea Calvillo, Social Studies of Science 48, no. 3 (2018): 372–388.
See Susan Leigh Star, “The Ethnography of Infrastructure,” American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (November 1, 1999): 377–391; Geoffrey C. Bowker, Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920–1940 (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994); Maria Puig De la Bellacasa, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
See De la Bellacasa, Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016), and many others. Speculation furthermore assumes a lack of closure and an uncertainty around the outcomes, that also requires other forms of evaluation. Michael Guggenheim, Bernd Kräftner, and Judith Kröll, “Creating Idiotic Speculators: Disaster Cosmopolitics in the Sandbox,” in Speculative Research. The Lure of the Possible, ed. Marsha Rosengarten, Martin Savransky, and Alex Wilkie (London: Routledge, 2017), 145–62.
Isabelle Stengers, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism, trans. Andrew Goffey (Open Humanities Press, 2015), 132.
Haraway citing Desprets in Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, 130.
Yellow Dust was designed by In the Air/C+arquitectos (Nerea Calvillo with Raul Nieves, Pep Tornabell, and Yee Thong Chai). The project was commissioned and produced by the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017. with the support of Acción Cultural Española and an impact ESRC IAA grant from the University of Warwick and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Precise measurement is essential for advocacy and environmental justice projects. Nicholas Shapiro, Nasser Zakariya, and Jody Roberts, “A Wary Alliance: From Enumerating the Environment to Inviting Apprehension,” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 3, no. 0 (September 28, 2017): 575–602.
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Steve Hinchliffe et al., “Urban Wild Things: A Cosmopolitical Experiment,” Environment and Urban Planning D: Society and Space 23 (2003): 643–58.
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, Classics Series (London: Routledge, 1966).
David Shooter and Peter Brimblecombe, “Air Quality Indexing,” International Journal of Environment and Pollution 36, no. 1/2/3 (2009): 305.
Andrew Barry, Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society (London: The Atholone Press, 2001).
Anders Blok, Moe Nakazora, and Brit Ross Winthereik, “Infrastructuring Environments,” Science as Culture 25, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 1–22.
Nigel Thrift, “Remembering the Technological Unconscious by Foregrounding Knowledges of Position,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22, no. 1 (2004): 175–90.
Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018).
Anne Galloway, “Intimations of Everyday Life. Ubiquitous Computing and the City,” Cultural Studies 18, no. 2/3 (May 2004): 384–408.
Fernando DomÍnguez Rubio and Uriel Fogué, “Technifying Public Space and Publicizing Infrastructures: Exploring New Urban Political Ecologies through the Square of General Vara Del Rey,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37, no. 3 (2013): 1035–1052.
Lauren Berlant, “The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubling Times,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 34, no. 3 (2016): 393–419.