venti journal

´Venti: Air, Experience, and Aesthetics invokes both the number ‘twenty’ and ‘the winds.’ Conceived in the year 2020, the journal is a forum for discussions centered on the year’s foregrounding of air, its related themes, and historical, interdisciplinary, and critical resonances. Venti asks: how do we become aware of something invisible and of things that are always in the air — such as the air itself? Investigating this query in a series of thematic issues, Venti explores the indexical qualities of air and our awareness of it through effects and affects.

Venti’s inquiries into the field of the atmospheric humanities unfold through a series of multidisciplinary readings on a range of topics: atmosphere, air bubbles, plein air, wind, vessels, and airwaves are but a few of the concepts through which our collective aims to understand the broad and elusive topic of air. Attempting to fulfill the impossible task of grounding air, Venti strives to do so through the unfolding of questions and answers within each particular issue and across all twenty. Containing interdisciplinary investigations and concluding each issue with a thematic definition allows Venti to become not only a collective but also a collection, acknowledging and preserving relevant approaches to understanding the world and its atmosphere today.

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