Hsuan L. Hsu: Air Conditioning | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781501377822 | Air Conditioning | Hsuan L. Hsu | Taschenbuch | Object Lessons | 2024

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Beschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue in (some) people's daily lives, thermoception-or the sensory perception of temperature-is being carefully studied and exploited as a tool of marketing, social control, and labor management.

Yet air conditioning isn't for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable. Hsuan Hsu's Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Über den Autor

Hsuan L. Hsu is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author of three books, including The Smell of Risk (forthcoming, NYU Press).

Zusammenfassung

Argues that air conditioning has played a vital but little understood role in the histories of modern culture-including everyday life as well as key works of literature, philosophy, and art

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why Air Conditioning?
1. Thermal Comfort
2. Bubbles: A Partial Typology
3. Weathermaking; Vicious Cycles
4. Cold Storage
5. The Racialization of Cooling
6. Global AC and the Great Uncooled
Conclusion: Bursting Our Bubbles
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Object Lessons
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781501377822
ISBN-10:	1501377825
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Klappenbroschur
Autor:	Hsu, Hsuan L.
Redaktion:	Schaberg, Christopher Bogost, Ian
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	163 x 122 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Hsuan L. Hsu
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.02.2024
Gewicht:	0,158 kg