Abstract
This response to Peter Adey takes up his invitation for geographers to cultivate an elemental mode of thinking. It agrees with his argument that there is much scope for drawing together different traditions of thinking about air and atmosphere. At the same time, the commentary points to a variation in the elemental thinking outlined by Adey. In addition to affinity, this mode of elemental thinking also foregrounds other logics, notably allure. Whilst not diminishing the importance of air’s politics, it also participates in the cultivation of an ethics defined in part by questions of exposure to the elemental.
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