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Atmosphere as the Fundamental Concept of a New Aesthetics

01 Aug 1993-Thesis Eleven (Sage PublicationsSage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA)-Vol. 36, Iss: 1, pp 113-126
About: This article is published in Thesis Eleven.The article was published on 1993-08-01. It has received 485 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Atmosphere (architecture and spatial design).
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TL;DR: In this paper, an epistemological positioning of consumer culture theory research beyond the lived experience of consumers is proposed, which explicitly connects the structuring of macro-social explanatory frameworks with the phenomenology of lived experiences, thereby inscribing the micro-social context accounted for by the consumer in a larger sociohistorical context based on the researcher's theoretica.
Abstract: This paper argues for an epistemological positioning of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) research beyond the lived experience of consumers. CCT, it is argued, brought sociocultural context to consumer research, not least through the introduction of existential phenomenology as a paradigm for CCT studies. However, it is time to expand the contextualization of lived consumer experiences with another contextualization, this time the one of systemic and structuring influences of market and social systems that is not necessarily felt or experienced by consumers in their daily lives, and therefore not necessarily discursively expressed. There is a need to take into consideration the context of context. We therefore suggest an epistemology for CCT that explicitly connects the structuring of macro-social explanatory frameworks with the phenomenology of lived experiences, thereby inscribing the micro-social context accounted for by the consumer in a larger socio-historical context based on the researcher’s theoretica...

488 citations


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  • ...The analytical challenge posed from that direction is to conceptualize the role of an object ‘in the ways in which it goes forth from itself’ (Böhme, 1992: 121)....

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27 Mar 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human are presented, with a focus on the life of lines.
Abstract: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there. In the second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the sky. This denominator is the atmosphere. In the third part, Ingold carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social. This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.

410 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors take as its starting point the centrality of nonrepresentational registers of communication and comprehension to understand how everyday experiences of travelling with others by publ le...
Abstract: This paper takes as its starting point the centrality of nonrepresentational registers of communication and comprehension to understanding how everyday experiences of travelling with others by publ...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the atmospheric qualities of illuminated space, grounding notions of affect in investigating the longstanding autumnal event of Blackpool Illuminations, are explored, highlighting the flow of affect and emotion in place, and demonstrating that affective atmospheres are coproduced by visitors as part of a reiterative, festive, convivial, and playful social practice in familiar space.
Abstract: This paper considers the atmospheric qualities of illuminated space, grounding notions of affect in investigating the longstanding autumnal event of Blackpool Illuminations. I consider the affective qualities of lighting before discussing the ‘atmosphere’ of the Illuminations. I critically explore the division between affect and emotion, the insistence on affect's precognitive qualities, and the notion that affective atmospheres produce a ‘mute attunement’ to place. In foregrounding the dense social production of atmosphere at Blackpool Illuminations, I highlight the flow of affect and emotion in place, show how lighting is ideally constituted to blur divisions between the representational and nonrepresentational, identify the anticipation of affect, and demonstrate that affective atmospheres are coproduced by visitors as part of a reiterative, festive, convivial, and playful social practice in familiar space.

217 citations


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  • ...The “indeterminate, spatially extended quality of feeling” (Böhme, 1993, page 118) of atmospheres can suffuse all spatial contexts, but in some spaces more profoundly than others....

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  • ...All atmospheres are “ ‘tinctured’ through the presence of things, of persons or environmental constellations” (Böhme, 1993, page 121)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how individual buildings and their architects preconfigure, limit, and engender particular affects to accomplish very particular goals, such as teaching, playing, and relaxing.
Abstract: Architectural design operates beyond symbolic and representational interpretation. Drawing on recent “nonrepresentational” geographies, we demonstrate how architectural space can be rethought through the concept of affect. We explore how individual buildings and their architects preconfigure, limit, and engender particular affects to accomplish very particular goals. Our analysis is based on two buildings in the United Kingdom: an ecological school and an airport. We demonstrate how affects both enable and constrain practices such as teaching, playing, and relaxing that render different buildings as uniquely meaningful places. The affects designated to and by these buildings are indispensable to the specification of particular styles of inhabitation, in ways not previously considered by architectural geographers.

208 citations


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  • ...In the last section we explored the use of affect to achieve a dwelling that was bound up in a specific form of authentic childhood, and in this section we explore inhabitation as a necessary component of spirituality (Bohm 1993; Loukaki 1997; Brennan 2003)....

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