The Marvelous Clouds by John Durham Peters
About the book
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by John Durham Peters (2015) is an ambitious work of media theory. Peters argues that “media” should be understood far more broadly than newspapers and screens: natural environments, the sea, fire, sky, time itself, are media too, infrastructures that carry and shape meaning. The book reframes media studies as a kind of philosophy of nature and infrastructure, and is admired for its range and originality.