Architektonika powietrza. Ekologia mediów i zanieczyszczenie powietrza w inteligentnych miastach
Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution

Summary/Abstract: Jussi Parikka writes about the strategies of gathering and processing information on urban air pollution (he focuses predominantly on smog): apart from sensory perception, there are a number of mediatising methods of registering pollution (such as sensors linked to IT systems): the pollution appears not only as a chemical phenomenon, but also a powerful database with a great political, economic and social potential, used by activists, authorities and companies. The author also points out the visual, media aspect of pollution and calls for the creation of “ecological art history” which would provide tols allowing to describe a number of phenomena characteristic of the anthropocene.

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