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Wind humanities: an elemental media approach

Wind humanities: an elemental media approach
Wind humanities: an elemental media approach
This article introduces wind humanities as a burgeoning field, exploring how wind shapes experience, reasoning, artistic and knowledge production. It positions wind as a medium, model, and lived experience, drawing on environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice to investigate wind’s methodological, epistemological, and ontological implications for humanistic inquiry. The authors situate this emergent field within the broader environmental and elemental turn in the humanities and media studies, highlighting its connections to new materialism and its potential to transform our understanding of both wind and the elemental more broadly. They suggest a rich and evolving landscape of inquiry around wind, highlighting past work and introducing the ten contributions to this stream, which explore wind as media, model, and experience across military technology, volumetric poetry, a libretto, animacies, aesthetics, diffraction, environmental perception, risk communication, indigenous cosmologies, and energy infrastructure.
wind, weather, elemental media, environmental humanities, media theory
2640-9747
Hepach, Maximilian
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Bishop, Ryan
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Hepach, Maximilian, Bishop, Ryan, Carpenter, J.R., Parikka, Jussi and Schneider, Birgit (2024) Wind humanities: an elemental media approach. Media+Environment, 6 (2). (doi:10.1525/001c.127444).

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This article introduces wind humanities as a burgeoning field, exploring how wind shapes experience, reasoning, artistic and knowledge production. It positions wind as a medium, model, and lived experience, drawing on environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice to investigate wind’s methodological, epistemological, and ontological implications for humanistic inquiry. The authors situate this emergent field within the broader environmental and elemental turn in the humanities and media studies, highlighting its connections to new materialism and its potential to transform our understanding of both wind and the elemental more broadly. They suggest a rich and evolving landscape of inquiry around wind, highlighting past work and introducing the ten contributions to this stream, which explore wind as media, model, and experience across military technology, volumetric poetry, a libretto, animacies, aesthetics, diffraction, environmental perception, risk communication, indigenous cosmologies, and energy infrastructure.

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Published date: 31 December 2024
Keywords: wind, weather, elemental media, environmental humanities, media theory

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Local EPrints ID: 497596
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/497596
ISSN: 2640-9747
PURE UUID: efabf47c-d6b0-42f4-89f4-dd48b8691553
ORCID for Jussi Parikka: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-6377

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Date deposited: 28 Jan 2025 17:44
Last modified: 22 Aug 2025 02:04

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Author: Maximilian Hepach
Author: Ryan Bishop
Author: J.R. Carpenter
Author: Jussi Parikka ORCID iD
Author: Birgit Schneider

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