Philosophy Now Forum

Cultural theory has been outpaced by technological developments, Sloterdijk writes. It must catch up with atmo-science. He calls for cultural analysis of how we talk about weather, how media report it, how we became spectators of national climates, asked to comment on our experience of weather, yet all the while continuing to think of weather as un-controlled. If weather can be controlled, affected by our industrial activities – and now that some describe themselves as guardians of climate –so we should have opinions about weather.