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Hermeneutics of Doubt

Author(s) -

Weihong Bao

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

representations

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 1533-855X

pISSN - 0734-6018

DOI - 10.1525/rep.2022.157.7.142

Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , atmosphere (unit) , conversation , hermeneutics , sustainability , climate change , sociology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , epistemology , history , ecology , philosophy , geography , meteorology , computer science , communication , biology , embedded system

This essay dwells on atmosphere as a mediating, climatic environment to consider climate as the nexus of mind, medium, and society. An inquiry into atmosphere, I argue, opens up climate from an objective entity into a constellation of aesthetic, infrastructural, and epistemological operations. I situate this richer notion of climate in China during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath by focusing on “doubt” as a unique atmosphere caught in the transnational traffic in media practices, psychological war, and genre film. Through an intimate conversation between aesthetics and technology, hermeneutics and media ecology, this essay conducts an experimental climatology to consider climate not simply as a physical milieu but as a method. Such a climatology—bringing together infrastructural analysis, aesthetic design, and sociopolitical projects—will allow us to engage “global climate change” and “affective climate change” as interconnected and integrated projects of sustainability.

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