Culture Machine

Vol 17. Thermal Objects

edited by Elena Beregow

Editorial: Theorizing Temperatures and the Social
− Elena Beregow

Time, Temperature and its Informational Turn
– Wolfgang Ernst

Hot and Cold Techniques in the Longue Durée of Media
− Erhard Schüttpelz

Cooked or Fermented? The Thermal Logic of Social Transformation − Elena Beregow

Thermocultures of Memory
– Samir Bhowmik

Natural Ice and the Emerging Cryopolis: A Historical Perspective on Urban Cold Infrastructure
– Paula Schönach

Infernal Machinery: Thermopolitics of the Explosion
− Nigel Clark

Thermal Violence: Heat Rays, Sweatboxes and the Politics of Exposure − Nicole Starosielski

As ‘index and metaphor’: Migration and the Thermal Imaginary in Richards Mosse’s Incoming
− Niall Martin

Distance Runners as Thermal Objects: Temperature Work, Somatic Learning and Thermal Attunement
– John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson

Posthuman Dance: Body Heart and Haptic
Intimacy in ORA – Hilary Bergen

Thermal Envelopes: Heat and Warmth in Installation Art − Gunnar Schmidt

Performative Raw Clay Practices and Ceramic Firing Techniques − Agustina Andreoletti