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Atmosphere as the Fundamental Concept of a New Aesthetics

Gernot Böhme
- 01 Aug 1993 - 
- Vol. 36, Iss: 1, pp 113-126
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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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Exercising Control at the Urban Scale: Towards a Theory of Spatial Organisation and Surveillance

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how urban spaces are implicated in the control and surveillance of users in a culture saturated by the notion of the self as a consuming body or entity.
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Moods and Meteors: A Reconstruction of Heidegger’s Atmospherology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the connection between moods and meteors or atmospheric phenomena in Heidegger's thinking, and argue that heidegger provides exactly such an ontological account of moods as two separate spheres but as a common atmosphere of attuned elementality.
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Mood as medium: Reconstruction and the material speculations of “new heritage”

TL;DR: In this paper, the mediation of mood and its material speculations is explored through multi-sited ethnography in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, and concepts borrowed from both the preservation of the moving image and digital forms of heritage restoration provide ways of rethinking the place of reconstruction and coming to a new understanding of its sensual and atmospheric terrain.
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Living in anachronistic space: Temporalities of displacement in Moscow's Soviet-era standardised housing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the Renovation project depends on the discursive construction of its targets as spatial anachronisms, which renders the Soviet-era housing blocks, and those who live within them, vulnerable to a spectrum of modernising aestheticising interventions.
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Life in the Open Air

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the nature of our relationship with the atmosphere that surrounds us, by exploring the constituent parts of my title and the complex relations between them, and conclude by arguing that the air contains not just the vital signs of life but also the signs of our technological disruption of the atmosphere, and that the reading of these signs can be a moment of responsibility.
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Einführung in die Semiotik.

Umberto Eco
TL;DR: In this paper, the definition of semiotik von Peirce is formalized: "in einer beziehung Stimulus - Respons stellt sich ein Verhaltnis zwischen zwei Polen, dem stimulierenden Pol und dem stimulierten Pol, ohne jede Vermittlung her".
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