Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process?
Table of Contents
Elements
- Weathering Ambivalences: Between Language and Physics
- Radiating Exposures
- Weathering the Afterlife: The Meteorological Psychology of Dante’s Commedia
- Scaling from Weather to Climate
Traces
- Enduring Ornament
- The Weathering of the Trace: Agamben’s Presupposition of Derrida
- Glaze: Or Formulas to Get through Bad Weather
Layers
- Weathering Weather: Atmospheric Geographies of the Guiana Shield
- ‘Locked out in nature’: Films on the European Asylum System, Latent Violence, and Ghosts
- On Bad Weather: Heidegger, Arendt, and Political Beginnings
Floods
- Representing the World, Weathering its End: Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s Ecology of the Ship
- Enduring Rain: On Vajiko Chachkhiani’s Living Dog Among Dead Lions
- Life Never Stops Being Violent: A Conversation
- Confined Weathers: Graciela Iturbide and Mario Bellatin’s The Bathroom of Frida Kahlo/Demerol without Expiration Date
