Reading and writing the weather: Climate technics and the moment of responsibility

Theory, Culture and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 9-30

  Szerszynski, Bronislaw ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biosemiotics; Climate change; Derrida; Environment; Geoengineering; Metabolism; Technics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952620204     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276409361915     Document Type: Article

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