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Reading Wind Diffractively: Elemental Chiasmus as Theory and Method (2025)
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Hepach, M. G., & Schneider, B. (2025). Reading Wind Diffractively: Elemental Chiasmus as Theory and Method. Media+Environment, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.127960

Wind itself, many have noted, is invisible. In both the archive and the field, we encountered the difficulty of getting wind into view ourselves, foregrounded by the many strategies developed to capture wind with the help of various proxies, instrume... Read More about Reading Wind Diffractively: Elemental Chiasmus as Theory and Method.

Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach (2024)
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Hepach, M., Bishop, R., Carpenter, J. R., Parikka, J., & Schneider, B. (2024). Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach. Media+Environment, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.127444

This article introduces wind humanities as a burgeoning field, exploring how wind shapes experience, reasoning, artistic and knowledge production. It positions wind as a medium, model, and lived experience, drawing on environmental humanities, media... Read More about Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach.

Sauerian phenomenology: German Theory and Carl Sauer's The Morphology of Landscape (2023)
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Hepach, M. G. (2023). Sauerian phenomenology: German Theory and Carl Sauer's The Morphology of Landscape. Geographica Helvetica, 78(3), 467-478. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-467-2023

Carl Sauer's The Morphology of Landscape is a foundational text for cultural geography. Instead of focusing on culture, however, this article pays special attention to Sauer's use of phenomenology. Through the lens of German Theory, I detail the deba... Read More about Sauerian phenomenology: German Theory and Carl Sauer's The Morphology of Landscape.

Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches (2023)
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Hepach, M. G., & Lüder, C. (2023). Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches. Environment and Planning F, 2(3), 350-368. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825231163144

In light of the increasing tendency to view extreme weather events as experiences of climate change, we revisit how weather and climate are measured and experienced, contributing to an ongoing dialogue on the atmospheric between phenomenology, media... Read More about Sensing weather and climate: Phenomenological and ethnographic approaches.

Ephemeral climates: Plato's geographic myths and the phenomenological nature of climate and its changes (2022)
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Hepach, M. G. (2022). Ephemeral climates: Plato's geographic myths and the phenomenological nature of climate and its changes. Journal of Historical Geography, 78, 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2022.04.003

Historical and cultural approaches to climate generally consider climate to be a stabilising concept between weather and culture. Different historical and cultural concepts of climate signify different ways of learning to live with the weather. Howev... Read More about Ephemeral climates: Plato's geographic myths and the phenomenological nature of climate and its changes.

Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography (2021)
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Hepach, M. G. (2021). Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography. Progress in Human Geography, 45(5), 1278-1294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520987308

This article calls into question recent attempts to move beyond, to ‘post’ phenomenology by highlighting the continued relevance of key phenomenological concepts (intentionality and correlationism) for human geography. I show how these concepts are p... Read More about Entangled phenomenologies: Reassessing (post-)phenomenology’s promise for human geography.

A Phenomenology of Weather and Qi (2017)
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Hepach, M. G. (2017). A Phenomenology of Weather and Qi. Journal of Japanese Philosophy, 5(1), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjp.2017.0002

The following article aims to answer the question: "How do we experience weather and qi?" Answering this question addresses two problems: (i) Both the phenomena of weather and qi elude classic phenomenological paradigms such as thing-perception and D... Read More about A Phenomenology of Weather and Qi.