Eva Horn has spent many years researching the Anthropocene from a cultural studies perspective — a not uncontested term for our current geological epoch. Her approach holds that humans have altered the entire Earth system so drastically that we must assume a new epoch in Earth history. Climate change, species loss, the disruption of key biogeochemical cycles, ocean acidification, desertification and deforestation, and ubiquitous toxins are just some of the dimensions of this profound transformation. 

In her new book "Klima. Eine Wahrnehmungsgeschichte" (published by Fischer Verlag), Eva Horn now examines climate from a sensory, cultural, and historical perspective. 

From theories about the influence of air and temperature on body and mind, to the image of the "ocean of air", to fantasies of "controlled" climates: drawing on the history of medicine, philosophy, art, and literature, Eva Horn sketches out a sweeping history of the human imagination of climate.

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