Towards a Meteorology of the Media

Abstract

This article advocates for an approach to media studies that accounts for the materiality of technological devices while still accounting for the immaterial aspects of the media apparatus. Such an approach would open up lines of inquiry that evade problems presented by current media categories (e.g. “new,” “digital,” or “broadcast” media). At the same time, it acknowledges the debt media technologies have to the exploitation and explication of the atmosphere and electromagnetic energy.