
Atmospheric Knowledge
Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-0-520-41732-8 (ISBN)
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How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play in how we belong to places? Atmospheric Knowledge takes up these questions through detailed analyses of practices that generate atmospheres and in which knowledge emerges through visceral intermingling with atmospheres. From combined musicological and anthropological perspectives, Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr investigate atmospheres as a compelling alternative to better-known analytics of affect by way of performative and sonic practices across a range of ethnographic settings. With particular focus on oceanic relations and sonic affectedness, Atmospheric Knowledge centers the rich affordances of sonic connections for knowing our environments.
How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play in how we belong to places? Atmospheric Knowledge takes up these questions through detailed analyses of practices that generate atmospheres and in which knowledge emerges through visceral intermingling with atmospheres. From combined musicological and anthropological perspectives, Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr investigate atmospheres as a compelling alternative to better-known analytics of affect by way of performative and sonic practices across a range of ethnographic settings. With particular focus on oceanic relations and sonic affectedness, Atmospheric Knowledge centers the rich affordances of sonic connections for knowing our environments.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
11 b-w illustrations; 5 a-v files
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-520-41732-8 (9780520417328)
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Birgit Abels | Patrick Eisenlohr
Atmospheric Knowledge
Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality
E-Book
09/2025
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€12.49
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Persons
Birgit Abels is Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Goettingen and author of Music Worlding in Palau and Sounds of Articulating Identity.
Patrick Eisenlohr is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Goettingen and author of Sounding Islam and Little India.
Patrick Eisenlohr is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Goettingen and author of Sounding Islam and Little India.
Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Atmospheric Knowledge
2. Sensing Transoceanic Connections I: The Indian Ocean World
3. Sensing Transoceanic Connections II: The Western Pacific Island World
4. Atmospheric Citizenship
5. Multisensoriality
6. Structured Movement as Aisthetic Labor
7. Latency as the Temporality of Atmospheres
8. Atmospheres as Environmentality: Chanting Climate Change
Conclusion: Atmospheric Knowledge as Embodied Futurity
Notes
References
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Atmospheric Knowledge
2. Sensing Transoceanic Connections I: The Indian Ocean World
3. Sensing Transoceanic Connections II: The Western Pacific Island World
4. Atmospheric Citizenship
5. Multisensoriality
6. Structured Movement as Aisthetic Labor
7. Latency as the Temporality of Atmospheres
8. Atmospheres as Environmentality: Chanting Climate Change
Conclusion: Atmospheric Knowledge as Embodied Futurity
Notes
References
Index