PDF ‘Engines of the cloud,’ ‘brain of the beast,’ ‘archives of digital capitalism,’ ‘factories of the 21st century’ – these, and similar metaphors, are frequently used to describe industrial scale…
PDF Abstract Bunkers are imposing physical objects that harbour surprising insights into how humans attempt to control time. This brief article investigates how concepts of time are structured through the…
PDF Abstract This article tracks the history of the sweatbox as a racialized technology of thermal violence. Through an analysis of the sweatbox’s use on the plantations and prisons of…
PDF In 1927, Marcel Mauss gave his definite answer to Henri Bergson’s concept of ‘homo faber’: Homo faber, says M. Bergson. This formula signifies only the obvious or too much…
PDF Abstract The increased human control over the abstract condition of coldness and the thermodynamically determined functionality of cold materials to cool their surroundings has become an inseparable and in…
Abstract After World War II the neo-avant-garde revolutionized the notion of art by using a wide range of natural and culturally produced materials in order to give them an expressive…
PDF Abstract This article approaches conceptual documentary-maker, Richard Mosse’s Incoming (2017) project which turns military-grade thermal imaging technology on migrants at Europe’s southern borders and asks ‘what does it mean…
PDF Abstract The senses of heat have to date been under-examined, including in the sociology of sport and physical cultures. Drawing on theorizations of the senses and ‘sensory work’, the…
PDF Abstract Filmed with 3D thermal imaging technology, ORA, a 2011 National Film Board collaboration between Montréal choreographer José Navas and filmmaker Philippe Baylaucq, renders the dancers’ body heat visible.…
PDF Abstract Discursive metaphors are exorcized by techno-logical analysis. While a media archaeology of contemporary communication media culture aims at resisting to apply ‘thermic’ metaphors, the notion of temperature returns…