the material world often thought of as landscape and artifact.
but what of the air? there is no conceptual framework for accommodating weather in fieldwork analysis
air is a medium... affords locomotion, respiration, and perception (james gibson)
it is the very condition of interaction (because of their suspension in the currents of the medium that things can interact)
Sloterdijk: a medial factor
(personal note: think of Bataille and the sun)
Serres: temps in french same root for weather and time (the shape of time)
ingolds word choice: weathering (what things undergo in exposure to the elements)
through this beings draw from the medium the inspiration, strength and resilience to carry on along their lines
weathering brings out texture, allowing a bind in sympathy, where whirls of elements turn to spinning lines, and the tempest gives birth to time
"the time of weather is a time without history" steven connor
weather is time experienced not chronologically but kairologically: attention to rhythmic relations