Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Envelopment  17
2. Sensing  35
3. Allure  55
4. Release  79
5. Volume  101
6. Sounding  121
7. Tensions  145
8. Hail  171
9. Elements  195
Notes  219
Bibliography  259
Index  279

"Derek P. McCormack offers a unique perspective on the relationship between object and atmosphere ... This title brings a fresh lens to topics as diverse as sensory perceptions, the concept of allure, and understandings of volume. . . . Recommended. Graduate students and researchers." — C. Leachman, Choice

"Derek P. McCormack offers a unique perspective on the relationship between object and atmosphere ... This title brings a fresh lens to topics as diverse as sensory perceptions, the concept of allure, and understandings of volume. . . . Recommended. Graduate students and researchers." —C. Leachman, Choice

“Atmospheric Things is a profound, rigorous inquiry into the blurry boundaries between feeling and knowing, subject and object, ground and air. We learn from this work that the shape of perception is a shifting, drifting, and permeable thing that is always becoming and moving us beyond what we know toward the alluring possibilities of experience. A beautiful and unique work.” — Caren Kaplan, author of, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above

“I loved reading Derek P. McCormack's affirming and gorgeous book. It is as much about the atmospherics of the balloon as it is a companion to life, death, grief, and politics, as well as violence, technologies, and belief. Executed through a mix of detailed archival work, encounters and memories from McCormack's life, and studies of contemporary art, Atmospheric Things is a wonderful book.” — Peter Adey, author of, Levitation: The Science, Myth, and Magic of Suspension

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