ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses an important route into comprehending a number of aspects of human life and experience, what is important to people, the environments in which life is played out, and processes of change and possible futures. It argues that while atmospheres cannot be reduced to the conditions that help them arise, these particular empirical configurations must at the same time be understood as absolutely implicit to them. The book explores the relationship between atmospheres and futurity, arguing that, because they make things comprehensible or imaginable in certain ways, they shape our worlds into the future. Atmosphere is described as all these things mixed together, with little concern for separating out bodily, emotional and intellectual responses or engagements with one's surroundings, as all these aspects entangle.
