Cloud Categorization
Clouds as natural categories
The atmospheric taxonomy: altitude, form, density, precipitation.Clouds as artistic material
Painting, photography, diffusion, light, symbolism, and Petrel’s photographs.Clouds as structures of thought
Memory, subconscious processing, association, and cloud-gazing as externalized introspection.Clouds as technological metaphor
The 2015 hope for distributed cognition versus the physical and political reality of cloud infrastructure.Clouds as collective consequence
Pollution, viral emotion, climate, computation, and systems whose behavior exceeds our ability to predict them.
