The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety
(2024)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2024). The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety. Modernism/modernity, 31(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2024.a935443
The focus of this article is the world's first mathematical weather forecast by Lewis Fry Richardson, published in 1922. In a counter-archival and anti-historical move, Richardson's work argues for the "disaggregation" of the future from the past. Th... Read More about The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety.