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Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating | |||
[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-254-4] | |||
''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/bio Monika Bakke] | |||
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== [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction Introduction: The Multispecies Use of Air] == | |||
‘It’s alive!’ we could certainly exclaim if confronted with a microscopic view of air. As aerobiologists observe, ‘[h]undreds of thousands of individual microbial cells can exist in a cubic metre of air, representing perhaps hundreds of unique taxa’ (Womack ''et al''., 2010: 3645). But what deserves special attention here is not only that air is full of life but also, apart from being a mean of transport and communication, air is a habitat in its own right. The ''zoe ''of air comes in abundance and we – breathing organisms – are all in this together for better and for worse, dead or alive. We have finally come to realize that air is messy, being neither an empty space nor a void, but a space where species meet. And like any other life form, as Donna Haraway emphasizes, we find ourselves ‘in a knot of species coshaping one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down’ (2008: 42). ([http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Introduction more...]) | |||
== | == Dwelling in Air == | ||
; Ann M. Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Jessica L. Green : [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982008/?tool=pubmed Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Atmosphere] | |||
; Anna A. Gorbushina, Renate Kort, Anette Schulte, David Lazarus, Bernhard Schnetger, Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, William J. Broughton, Jocelyne Favet : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01461.x/full Life in Darwin's Dust: Intercontinental Transport and Survival of Microbes in the Nineteenth Century] | |||
; Anders Hedenström : [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000362 Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?] | |||
; Elizabeth Thomas : [http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/images/art/matrix/224/MATRIX_224_Tomas_Saraceno.pdf Tomas Saraceno Looks to the Sky and Sees Possibilities] | |||
; Nerea Cavillo : [http://intheair.es/index.html In the Air] | |||
; Steven Connor – [http://www.stevenconnor.com/ Taking to the Air] : {{#widget:SoundCloud|id=24257558}} | |||
== Nonhuman Volatile Communication == | |||
; Frederick R. Adler : [http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/7/2/161.full Plant Signalling: The Opportunities and Dangers of Chemical Communication] | |||
; Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01627.x/full The Evolution of Floral Scent: The Influence of Olfactory Learning by Insect Pollinators on the Honest Signalling of Floral Rewards] | |||
; Michael R. Whitehead, Rod Peakall : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01620.x/full Integrating Floral Scent, Pollination Ecology and Population Genetics] | |||
; Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley, Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch : [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0050228 The Scent of the Waggle Dance] | |||
== | == Anthropology of Scents == | ||
; Gordon M. Shepherd : [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020146 The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think?] | |||
; Charles J. Wysocki, George Preti : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.a.20125/full Facts, Fallacies, Fears, and Frustrations with Human Pheromones] | |||
; Susana Camara Leret : [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/smellscapes.pdf Smellscapes: The Loss of Smell in a Visual Culture] | |||
; Usman Haque : [http://www.haque.co.uk/scentsofspace.php Scents of Space] | |||
; Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos, Clara Ursitti : [http://www.displaycult.com/exhibitions/odor_limits.html Odor Limits] | |||
== Inspiration-Expiration == | |||
; Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmc.835/pdf Human Exhaled Air Analytics: Biomarkers of Diseases] | |||
; Sabrina Raaf : [http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=13 Breath I: Pleasure]<br>[http://www.raaf.org/projects.php?pcat=2&proj=15&sec=images# Breath Cultures] | |||
= | ; Jarosław Kozakiewicz : [http://www.kozakiewicz.art.pl/wpis_en.php?id=38 Oxygen Towers] | ||
; Tomas Saraceno : [http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/detail/poeticcosmosofthebreath/ Poetic Cosmos of the Breath] | |||
; Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos : [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/learningtofly_Kaulingfreks.pdf Learning to Fly: Inspiration and Togetherness] | |||
; M. J. Parkes : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/expphysiol.2005.031625/full Breath-holding and Its Breakpoint] | |||
== Airborne Anxieties == | |||
; Simon Luechinger : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02241.x/full#fn1 Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach] | |||
; G. Liccardi, A. Custovic, M. Cazzola, M. Russo, M. D'Amato, G. D'Amato : [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1398-9995.2001.056008705.x/full Avoidance of Allergens and Air Pollutants in Respiratory Allergy] | |||
; Lisa Fong Poh Ng ; [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0000066 The Virus That Changed My World ] | |||
; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVLo2CtB3GA&feature=related How Flu Viruses Attack] : <youtube>TVLo2CtB3GA</youtube> | |||
; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soh3P0ITtE8 What You Should Know About Biological Warfare] : <youtube>Soh3P0ITtE8</youtube> | |||
; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty1SMtpuaO4&feature=related How to Survive- Biological or Chemical Attack] : <youtube>ty1SMtpuaO4</youtube> | |||
; Critical Art Ensemble : [http://www.critical-art.net/mp.html Bodies of Fear in a World of Threat] | |||
; Beatriz da Costa : [http://www.pigeonblog.mapyourcity.net/index.php Pigeonblog] | |||
== | == [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Air/Attributions Attributions] == | ||
== A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book == | |||
; [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/bookarchive/LifeofAir.pdf Download a 'frozen' PDF version of this book as it appeared on 7th October 2011] | |||
Latest revision as of 13:59, 19 January 2012
Dwelling, Communicating, Manipulating
edited by Monika Bakke
Introduction: The Multispecies Use of Air
‘It’s alive!’ we could certainly exclaim if confronted with a microscopic view of air. As aerobiologists observe, ‘[h]undreds of thousands of individual microbial cells can exist in a cubic metre of air, representing perhaps hundreds of unique taxa’ (Womack et al., 2010: 3645). But what deserves special attention here is not only that air is full of life but also, apart from being a mean of transport and communication, air is a habitat in its own right. The zoe of air comes in abundance and we – breathing organisms – are all in this together for better and for worse, dead or alive. We have finally come to realize that air is messy, being neither an empty space nor a void, but a space where species meet. And like any other life form, as Donna Haraway emphasizes, we find ourselves ‘in a knot of species coshaping one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down’ (2008: 42). (more...)
Dwelling in Air
- Ann M. Womack, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Jessica L. Green
- Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Atmosphere
- Anna A. Gorbushina, Renate Kort, Anette Schulte, David Lazarus, Bernhard Schnetger, Hans-Jürgen Brumsack, William J. Broughton, Jocelyne Favet
- Life in Darwin's Dust: Intercontinental Transport and Survival of Microbes in the Nineteenth Century
- Anders Hedenström
- Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Tomas Saraceno Looks to the Sky and Sees Possibilities
- Nerea Cavillo
- In the Air
- Steven Connor – Taking to the Air
Nonhuman Volatile Communication
- Frederick R. Adler
- Plant Signalling: The Opportunities and Dangers of Chemical Communication
- Geraldine A. Wright, Florian P. Schiestl
- The Evolution of Floral Scent: The Influence of Olfactory Learning by Insect Pollinators on the Honest Signalling of Floral Rewards
- Michael R. Whitehead, Rod Peakall
- Integrating Floral Scent, Pollination Ecology and Population Genetics
- Corinna Thom, David C. Gilley, Judith Hooper, Harald E. Esch
- The Scent of the Waggle Dance
Anthropology of Scents
- Gordon M. Shepherd
- The Human Sense of Smell: Are We Better Than We Think?
- Charles J. Wysocki, George Preti
- Facts, Fallacies, Fears, and Frustrations with Human Pheromones
- Susana Camara Leret
- Smellscapes: The Loss of Smell in a Visual Culture
- Usman Haque
- Scents of Space
- Oswaldo Maciá, Jenny Marketou, Chrysanne Stathacos, Clara Ursitti
- Odor Limits
Inspiration-Expiration
- Bogusław Buszewski, Martyna Kęsy, Tomasz Ligor, Anton Amann
- Human Exhaled Air Analytics: Biomarkers of Diseases
- Sabrina Raaf
- Breath I: Pleasure
Breath Cultures
- Jarosław Kozakiewicz
- Oxygen Towers
- Tomas Saraceno
- Poetic Cosmos of the Breath
- Ruud Kaulingfreks , René Ten Bos
- Learning to Fly: Inspiration and Togetherness
- M. J. Parkes
- Breath-holding and Its Breakpoint
Airborne Anxieties
- Simon Luechinger
- Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach Valuing Air Quality Using the Life Satisfaction Approach
- G. Liccardi, A. Custovic, M. Cazzola, M. Russo, M. D'Amato, G. D'Amato
- Avoidance of Allergens and Air Pollutants in Respiratory Allergy
- Lisa Fong Poh Ng ; The Virus That Changed My World
- How Flu Viruses Attack
- What You Should Know About Biological Warfare
- How to Survive- Biological or Chemical Attack
- Critical Art Ensemble
- Bodies of Fear in a World of Threat
- Beatriz da Costa
- Pigeonblog