Words of Weather: A glossary
A glossary of weather that maps terms for a political ecology of experience.
Weather exists as an atmosphere that can be measured, as an environment that is lived, and as time in which we experience humidity, pressure, temperature, and visibility. What would be the appropriate terms of weather that speak to this trio of concerns – measure, experience, and time? This glossary of weather is a manual to navigate through the contemporary moment on the surface and in the air, on bodies, and in our environments. It examines how weather has significance as a reality defined through scientific models and technical sensors, while it is being felt differently and unevenly in different parts of the world. It studies the weather as an ecology taking in mind its technologies and affects, its scientific language and poetics, its phenomena and interpretations through various perspectives, cultures, and geographies.
The Glossary accompanies the exhibition “Weather Engines” (curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka), and provides familiar and unexpected terms as proposed and written by artists, philosophers, academics, and architects.
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The established platform in the publishing section “Leonardo” delivers an outstanding review about the publication “Words of Weather: A Glossary.”
“Α valuable and provoking book that sustains physical handling and many of the well referenced essays are sufficiently intriguing to reward re-visiting several times. As such ‘Words of Weather’ is possibly both a material and intellectual marker that the weather is no longer subsets of other disciplines but has acquired an autonomy that might allow us to talk about it in relation to human agency.”
- Michael Punt
Read the full review here.
Publisher: Onassis Foundation
Edited by: Jussi Parikka and Daphne Dragona
Design by: Typical Organization
Texts: Ryan Bishop, Benjamin Bratton, Holly Jean Buck, J. R. Carpenter, Sria Chatterjee, Sean Cubitt, Heather Davis, Daphne Dragona, Matthew Fuller, Geocinema (Asia Bazdyrieva & Solveig Suess), Olga Goriunova, Pujita Guha (for the Forest Curriculum), Orit Halpern, Eva Horn, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Lydia Kallipoliti, Adrian Lahoud, open-weather, Jussi Parikka, John Durham Peters, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Janine Randerson, Karolina Sobecka, The Weathering Collective (Tessa Zettel, Astrida Neimanis, Jennifer Mae Hamilton), May Ee Wong
Publication year: 2022
Language: English | Greek (in separate volumes)
Pages: 192 (English) | 216 (Greek)
Dimensions: 12×18 cm
Format: Printed
Description: Softcover
ISBN: 978-618-85928-1-0 (English) | 978-618-85928-2-7 (Greek)
Price: 12 € (Greek edition) | 15 € (English edition)
