tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post4646699890346588634..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Adam Kotsko on Air ConditioningTimothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-81236444807377503722011-06-05T11:05:37.674-05:002011-06-05T11:05:37.674-05:00Thanks for this Cameron. Your point is well taken-...Thanks for this Cameron. Your point is well taken--it's why I like Harman's work, because it doesn't do that...Timothy Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-69535682121191697572011-05-31T18:58:35.841-05:002011-05-31T18:58:35.841-05:00Probably wouldn't work in every geography, but...Probably wouldn't work in every geography, but the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park has taken another route: Passive climate control --<br />The undulating roof helps guide fresh, cool air into the central piazza and stale, hot air out through high-point vents. This lessens the need for expensive, energy-wasting air-conditioning and ventilation systems. http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/15-08/st_greenmuseumcgerrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564937504464647689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-76367320632229542762011-05-31T16:50:45.182-05:002011-05-31T16:50:45.182-05:00While it is true that air con in some areas draws ...While it is true that air con in some areas draws attention to itself for purposes of conspicuous consumption - think high street stores that leave their doors open ( http://www.closethedoor.org.uk/ ) and chilled hotel rooms - the pervasiveness of air conditioning is more the history of its normalization, of sociotechnical accomplishments being written on the body as ratched expectations of what it means to be human (as opposed to a sweating animal). That's why the industry was all about identifying the temperature and air speed that would not be noticed - being a (productive) human (first at work, then at home, then in the car) means not noticing the air (temp or speed).<br /><br />I think it is symptomatic of the inability of philosophy to understand design and designed environments to call out a phenomenon (like) only when it attains the status of an ob-ject (cold), missing the fact that design, in essence, aims at the withdrawal of things.camerontwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12576089029390603417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-46659398229113090242011-05-31T16:17:51.011-05:002011-05-31T16:17:51.011-05:00Yves Klein wrote some interesting things about con...Yves Klein wrote some interesting things about controlled weather environments (air architecture) as the ideal form his art would take under the best technological circumstances. there's some great elaborations on it in here: <br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Yves-Klein-Architecture-Peter-Noever/dp/3775714073isaaclinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15292197135155299919noreply@blogger.com