”… in a book called Ecologies of Comparison (2011), cultural anthropologist Timothy Choy develops ‘airy poetics’ as a mode of reflection and attention to the affective materiality of being-in-air. Through his study of contemporary, highly polluted Hong Kong he finds air is a tangible, abrasive material as well as a symbolic and expressive field: it enfolds the incredibly personal experiences of respiratory illness with the economies of transport and the ‘technological zones’ of the city’s Air Pollution Index …”
Contributed by
Juan Pablo Macías