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Compared to climate ethics, the aesthetics of weather and climate is still in an incipient phase. The topic of weather conditions is situated at the intersection of recent subdisciplines of aesthetics, such as environmental aesthetics, everyday aesthetics, the New Phenomenology of atmosphere (in the sense of affective ambiance) and the aesthetics of science. The lecture claims that the aforementioned directions of investigation can be interlaced so that an aesthetic theory of weather may fully develop its potential to foster sustainable patterns of behavior, support scientific communication and unprecedently extend the scope of artistic media.

Mădălina Diaconu is Privatdozentin at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna and lecturer at the Department for Romance Studies of the same university. Her latest book is Aesthetics of Weather (Bloomsbury, 2024).

This event is organized within the research group Environmental Humanities hosted by New Europe College.