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= '''The Life of Air: Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating'''<br>  =
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Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating


= edited by Monika Bakke  =
[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-254-4]


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''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/bio Monika Bakke]
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== [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...])


►Monika Bakke
== Dwelling in Air ==
; 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}}


[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction The Multispecies Use of Air]<br>
== Nonhuman Volatile Communication ==
; 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]


‘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). <br><br> The natural history of airborne communities enters into the social history of air almost exclusively in moments of crisis such as pandemics. Airborne microbial life, however, is in constant interaction with human life not only in a pathogenic but also in a beneficial way – directly and indirectly – as it affects the atmospheric processes. (Womack ''et al''., 2010: 3645) Anthropocentric perspectives, or rather the social history of air, limit our view of aerial life to human ‘bodies being made to be aerial (Adey, 2010: 25) in aviation to the accelerating saturation of air with the electromagnetic signals in the wireless communication (Dalal, 2009) or focus on the imaginary and artistic ways of dealing with air (Connor, 2010; Bakke, 2006). Unfortunately we tend to forget that as a species we are not the only air users and that air plays an active role in our embodied lives. In fact, we live submerged in a crowded and busy air full of life and full of molecular messages being exchanged by nonhumans. Air developed as the most ancient means of communication, long before the appearance of humans into the earth’s ecosystems, serving as a vast pool jammed with chemical signals which only recently started gaining scientific recognition. Messages expressing desires, warnings and survival instructions are constantly sent via air by plants and animals. Plants, therefore, cannot be considered passive air users, as they are capable of complex signaling, some of which travels into the air and through the air. ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction more]) <br><br>
== Anthropology of Scents ==
; 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 : [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]


== '''<span lang="EN-US">Dwelling </span>in Air'''  ==
== Inspiration-Expiration  ==
; 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]<br>[http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=15&sec=images# Breath Cultures]


<span lang="EN-US">►Ann M.
; Jarosław Kozakiewicz : [http://www.kozakiewicz.art.pl/wpis_en.php?id=38 Oxygen Towers]
Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, and Jessica L. Green</span><br>
; 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]


[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982008/?tool=pubmed <span lang="EN-US">Biodiversity and biogeography of the atmosphere</span>]<br>
== Airborne Anxieties ==
; 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,&nbsp;M. Cazzola, M. Russo, M. D'Amato, G. D'Amato : [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]


<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">►Anna A. Gorbushina</span><span lang="EN-US">,</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">Renate
== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Attributions Attributions] ==
Kort</span><span lang="EN-US">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;"> Anette Schulte, David Lazarus, Bernhard Schnetger,
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, William J. Broughton, Jocelyne Favet</span>


<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">[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]</span>
== A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book ==
 
; [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/bookarchive/LifeofAir.pdf Download a 'frozen' PDF version of this book as it appeared on 7th October 2011]
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">►Anders Hedenström</span>
 
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000362 Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight? ]<br>
 
<span lang="EN-US">►Elizabeth Thomas </span><br>
 
<span lang="EN-US">Tomas Saraceno looks to the sky and sees possibilities</span>
 
<cite><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></cite>
 
<cite></cite><cite><span style="font-style: normal;">►Steven Connor </span></cite>
 
<cite><span style="font-style: normal;">Taking to the
air</span></cite>
 
'''<span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span>'''
 
== '''<span lang="EN-US">Nonhuman</span> Volatile Communication'''  ==
 
<span lang="EN-US">►Frederick R. Adler</span>
 
[http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/2/161.full Plant signalling: the opportunities and dangers of chemical communication&nbsp;]
 
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">►Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl</span>
 
[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&nbsp;]
 
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">►Michael R. Whitehead</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">Rod Peakall</span>
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01620.x/full Integrating floral scent, pollination ecology and population genetics&nbsp;]
 
<span style="">►Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley,
Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch</span>
 
<span style="">[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0050228 The Scent of the Waggle Dance&nbsp; ]
</span>
 
<br>
 
== '''<span lang="EN-US">Anthropology of Scents</span>'''  ==
 
►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?&nbsp;]
 
►Charles J. Wysocki, George Preti
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.a.20125/full Facts, fallacies, fears, and frustrations with human pheromones]
 
►Susana Camara Leret<br>
 
[http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/smellscapes_leret.pdf Smellscapes: the loss of smell in a visual culture]<br>
 
►Usman Haque
 
[http://www.haque.co.uk/scentsofspace.php Scents of space ]<br>
 
►<font class="DC_list_text">Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos, Clara Ursitti</font>
 
[http://www.displaycult.com/exhibitions/odor_limits.html Odor limits]
 
<br>
 
== '''<span lang="EN-US">Inspiration-Expiration</span>'''<br>  ==
 
► Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmc.835/full Human exhaled air analytics: biomarkers of diseases]
 
► Sabrina Raaf [http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=13 &nbsp; ]
 
[http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=13 Breath I: pleasure]<br>[http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=15&sec=images# Breath Cultures ]
 
► Jarosław Kozakiewicz<br>
 
[http://www.kozakiewicz.art.pl/wpis_en.php?id=38 Oxygen towers&nbsp;]
 
► Tomas Saraceno
 
[http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/detail/poeticcosmosofthebreath/ Poetic Cosmos of the Breath&nbsp;]
 
► Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos<br>Learning to fly: inspiration and togetherness<br>
 
[http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/ejrot/cmsconference/2001/Papers/Passion%20for%20Organising/Kaulingfreks.pdf]
 
► M. J. Parkes
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/expphysiol.2005.031625/full Breath-holding and its breakpoint]
 
<br>
 
== '''Airborne Anxieties'''  ==
 
► 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,&nbsp;M. Cazzola, M. Russo, M. D'Amato, G. D'Amato
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1398-9995.2001.056008705.x/full Avoidance of allergens and air pollutants in respiratory allergy ]'''<br>'''
 
► Lisa Fong Poh Ng
 
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0000066 The Virus That Changed My World ]<br>
 
[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 Ensamble
 
[http://www.critical-art.net/mp.html Bodies of Fear in a World of Threat]
 
<br>
 
[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Attributions Attributions]

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Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating

ISBN: 978-1-60785-254-4

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
In the Air
Steven Connor – Taking to the Air

Nonhuman Volatile Communication

Frederick R. Adler
Plant Signalling: The Opportunities and Dangers of Chemical Communication
Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl
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
Integrating Floral Scent, Pollination Ecology and Population Genetics
Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley, Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch
The Scent of the Waggle Dance

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
Scents of Space
Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos, Clara Ursitti
Odor Limits

Inspiration-Expiration

Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann
Human Exhaled Air Analytics: Biomarkers of Diseases
Sabrina Raaf
Breath I: Pleasure
Breath Cultures
Jarosław Kozakiewicz
Oxygen Towers
Tomas Saraceno
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath
Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos
Learning to Fly: Inspiration and Togetherness
M. J. Parkes
Breath-holding and Its Breakpoint

Airborne Anxieties

Simon Luechinger
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
Avoidance of Allergens and Air Pollutants in Respiratory Allergy
Lisa Fong Poh Ng ; The Virus That Changed My World
How Flu Viruses Attack
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
Pigeonblog

Attributions

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