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- Title
The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety.
- Authors
Sheils, Barry
- Abstract
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. The paradox which results from this disaggregation, namely that the future must be framed as unprecedented in order to be subject to prediction, is viewed as a disciplinary bind which afflicts literary modernism and meteorology equally. Through a reading of James Joyce's Ulysses alongside the meteorological data for Dublin on June 16, 1904, this article considers the interaction between the future and the archive as a problem of literary writing.
- Subjects
NUMERICAL weather forecasting; MODERNISM (Literature); JOYCE, James, 1882-1941; WEATHER forecasting; AUTHORSHIP; METEOROLOGY
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2024.a935443