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== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction Introduction: The Multispecies Use of Air] == | == [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction Introduction: The Multispecies Use of Air] == | ||
‘It’s alive!’ we could certainly exclaim if confronted with a microscopic view of air. As aerobiologists observe, ‘[h]undreds of thousands of individual microbial cells can exist in a cubic metre of air, representing perhaps hundreds of unique taxa’ (Womack ''et al''., 2010: 3645). But what deserves special attention here is not only that air is full of life but also, apart from being a mean of transport and communication, air is a habitat in its own right. The ''zoe ''of air comes in abundance and we – breathing organisms – are all in this together for better and for worse, dead or alive. We have finally come to realize that air is messy, being neither an empty space nor a void, but a space where species meet. And like any other life form, as Donna Haraway emphasizes, we find ourselves ‘in a knot of species coshaping one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down’ (2008: 42). ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction more...]) | ‘It’s alive!’ we could certainly exclaim if confronted with a microscopic view of air. As aerobiologists observe, ‘[h]undreds of thousands of individual microbial cells can exist in a cubic metre of air, representing perhaps hundreds of unique taxa’ (Womack ''et al''., 2010: 3645). But what deserves special attention here is not only that air is full of life but also, apart from being a mean of transport and communication, air is a habitat in its own right. The ''zoe ''of air comes in abundance and we – breathing organisms – are all in this together for better and for worse, dead or alive. We have finally come to realize that air is messy, being neither an empty space nor a void, but a space where species meet. And like any other life form, as Donna Haraway emphasizes, we find ourselves ‘in a knot of species coshaping one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down’ (2008: 42). ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction more...]) | ||
== Dwelling in Air == | == Dwelling in Air == | ||
Ann M. Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Jessica L. Green | Ann M. Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Jessica L. Green | ||
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982008/?tool=pubmed Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Atmosphere] | |||
Anna A. Gorbushina, Renate Kort, Anette Schulte, David Lazarus, Bernhard Schnetger, Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, William J. Broughton, Jocelyne Favet | |||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01461.x/full Life in Darwin's Dust: Intercontinental Transport and Survival of Microbes in the Nineteenth Century] | |||
Anders Hedenström | |||
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000362 Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?] | |||
Elizabeth Thomas | |||
[http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/images/art/matrix/224/MATRIX_224_Tomas_Saraceno.pdf Tomas Saraceno Looks to the Sky and Sees Possibilities] | |||
Nerea Cavillo | |||
[http://intheair.es/index.html In the Air] | |||
Steven Connor | |||
[http://www.stevenconnor.com/ Taking to the Air] | |||
{{#widget:SoundCloud|id=24257558}} | |||
== Nonhuman Volatile Communication == | == Nonhuman Volatile Communication == | ||
Frederick R. Adler | Frederick R. Adler | ||
[http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/2/161.full Plant Signalling: The Opportunities and Dangers of Chemical Communication] | |||
Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl | |||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01627.x/full The Evolution of Floral Scent: The Influence of Olfactory Learning by Insect Pollinators on the Honest Signalling of Floral Rewards] | |||
Michael R. Whitehead, Rod Peakall | |||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01620.x/full Integrating Floral Scent, Pollination Ecology and Population Genetics] | |||
Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley, Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch | |||
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0050228 The Scent of the Waggle Dance] | |||
== Anthropology of Scents == | == Anthropology of Scents == | ||
Gordon M. Shepherd | Gordon M. Shepherd | ||
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020146 The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think?] | |||
Charles J. Wysocki, George Preti<br> [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.a.20125/full Facts, Fallacies, Fears, and Frustrations with Human Pheromones] | |||
Susana Camara Leret | |||
[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/smellscapes.pdf Smellscapes: The Loss of Smell in a Visual Culture] | |||
Usman Haque | |||
[http://www.haque.co.uk/scentsofspace.php Scents of Space] | |||
Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos, Clara Ursitti | |||
[http://www.displaycult.com/exhibitions/odor_limits.html Odor Limits] | |||
== Inspiration-Expiration == | == Inspiration-Expiration == | ||
Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann | Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann | ||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmc.835/pdf Human Exhaled Air Analytics: Biomarkers of Diseases] | |||
Sabrina Raaf | |||
[http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=13 Breath I: Pleasure] | |||
[http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=15&sec=images# Breath Cultures] | |||
Jarosław Kozakiewicz | |||
[http://www.kozakiewicz.art.pl/wpis_en.php?id=38 Oxygen Towers] | |||
Tomas Saraceno | |||
[http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/detail/poeticcosmosofthebreath/ Poetic Cosmos of the Breath] | |||
Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos | |||
[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/learningtofly_Kaulingfreks.pdf Learning to Fly: Inspiration and Togetherness] | |||
M. J. Parkes | |||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/expphysiol.2005.031625/full Breath-holding and Its Breakpoint] | |||
== Airborne Anxieties == | == Airborne Anxieties == | ||
Simon Luechinger | Simon Luechinger | ||
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02241.x/full#fn1 Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach] | |||
G. Liccardi, A. Custovic, M. Cazzola, M. Russo, M. D'Amato, G. D'Amato<br> [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1398-9995.2001.056008705.x/full Avoidance of Allergens and Air Pollutants in Respiratory Allergy] | |||
Lisa Fong Poh Ng | |||
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0000066 The Virus That Changed My World ] | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVLo2CtB3GA&feature=related How Flu Viruses Attack] | |||
<youtube>TVLo2CtB3GA</youtube> | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soh3P0ITtE8 What You Should Know About Biological Warfare] | |||
<youtube>Soh3P0ITtE8</youtube> | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty1SMtpuaO4&feature=related How to Survive- Biological or Chemical Attack] | |||
<youtube>ty1SMtpuaO4</youtube> | |||
Critical Art Ensemble | |||
[http://www.critical-art.net/mp.html Bodies of Fear in a World of Threat] | |||
Beatriz da Costa | |||
[http://www.pigeonblog.mapyourcity.net/index.php Pigeonblog] | |||
== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Attributions Attributions] == | == [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Attributions Attributions] == | ||
Revision as of 12:03, 29 September 2011
Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating
edited by Monika Bakke
Introduction: The Multispecies Use of Air
‘It’s alive!’ we could certainly exclaim if confronted with a microscopic view of air. As aerobiologists observe, ‘[h]undreds of thousands of individual microbial cells can exist in a cubic metre of air, representing perhaps hundreds of unique taxa’ (Womack et al., 2010: 3645). But what deserves special attention here is not only that air is full of life but also, apart from being a mean of transport and communication, air is a habitat in its own right. The zoe of air comes in abundance and we – breathing organisms – are all in this together for better and for worse, dead or alive. We have finally come to realize that air is messy, being neither an empty space nor a void, but a space where species meet. And like any other life form, as Donna Haraway emphasizes, we find ourselves ‘in a knot of species coshaping one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down’ (2008: 42). (more...)
Dwelling in Air
Ann M. Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Jessica L. Green
Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Atmosphere
Anna A. Gorbushina, Renate Kort, Anette Schulte, David Lazarus, Bernhard Schnetger, Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, William J. Broughton, Jocelyne Favet
Life in Darwin's Dust: Intercontinental Transport and Survival of Microbes in the Nineteenth Century
Anders Hedenström
Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?
Elizabeth Thomas
Tomas Saraceno Looks to the Sky and Sees Possibilities
Nerea Cavillo
Steven Connor
Nonhuman Volatile Communication
Frederick R. Adler
Plant Signalling: The Opportunities and Dangers of Chemical Communication
Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl
Michael R. Whitehead, Rod Peakall
Integrating Floral Scent, Pollination Ecology and Population Genetics
Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley, Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch
Anthropology of Scents
Gordon M. Shepherd
The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think?
Charles J. Wysocki, George Preti
Facts, Fallacies, Fears, and Frustrations with Human Pheromones
Susana Camara Leret
Smellscapes: The Loss of Smell in a Visual Culture
Usman Haque
Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos, Clara Ursitti
Inspiration-Expiration
Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann
Human Exhaled Air Analytics: Biomarkers of Diseases
Sabrina Raaf
Jarosław Kozakiewicz
Tomas Saraceno
Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos
Learning to Fly: Inspiration and Togetherness
M. J. Parkes
Breath-holding and Its Breakpoint
Airborne Anxieties
Simon Luechinger
G. Liccardi, A. Custovic, M. Cazzola, M. Russo, M. D'Amato, G. D'Amato
Avoidance of Allergens and Air Pollutants in Respiratory Allergy
Lisa Fong Poh Ng
The Virus That Changed My World
What You Should Know About Biological Warfare
How to Survive- Biological or Chemical Attack
Critical Art Ensemble
Bodies of Fear in a World of Threat
Beatriz da Costa