A taken-for-granted benefit of living in the belly of American late capitalism is the convenience and comfort of an air-conditioned environment. My essay title is meant to conjure an image of one of the more banal and quotidian absences in a possible climate-changed future, in which some of those aspects of what passes for modern life can no longer be assumed. I want to call attention to what this technology has meant for everyday life in the USA, both literally and as a signifier of what could change in a post-energy-transition future in which summers will be hotter and electricity more expensive. Air conditioning also makes for an appropriate symbol of elided global inequality that ground critiques of the totalizing conception of human agency that is causing climate change, the ‘anthro’ in Anthropocene. As a recent long-form article in the Guardian points out, most of those who enjoy the conveniences of air conditioning today live in parts of the world that emit far greater quantities of carbon than less-developed countries. The latter unsurprisingly suffer more from the effects of that distant consumption as the ferocity of heat waves increase, causing higher numbers of casualties among people who cannot afford air conditioning.1¹ My arguments here will draw on existing scholarship in the environmental humanities to illustrate the ways in which film and television studies can benefit from and contribute to the pressing need to think through the current climate crisis using all disciplinary tools available. In this short essay I outline the viewing strategies that can develop via an exploration of the seemingly banal and everyday experience of sweating in the absence of what used to be called ‘indoor climate control’, or air conditioning.

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后空调期货和气候无意识

生活在美国晚期资本主义腹部的好处是空调环境的便利和舒适。我的论文标题旨在让人联想到在一个可能的气候变化的未来中更为平淡无奇和无足轻重的缺席中的一种形象，在这种形象中，现代生活的某些方面不再可以被假定。我想提请注意这项技术对美国日常生活的意义，无论从字面上还是作为能源转换后未来中可能发生变化的标志，在这种情况下，夏天会更热，电价会更高。空调还可以作为消除全球不平等现象的适当象征，这种批评是对导致气候变化的人类机构总体概念（人类世的“人类”）的批评。作为最近的一篇长篇文章，瓜迪安指出，当今享受空调便利性的大多数人生活在世界一些地区，这些国家的碳排放量远多于不发达国家。后者不出所料遭受更多的从那个遥远的消费热浪凶猛的效应增加，引起人们谁买不起空气conditioning.1伤亡数字较高¹我在这里的论据将借鉴现有环境人类学的研究成果，以说明电影和电视研究可以利用现有的所有纪律工具从当前的气候危机中受益并促进紧迫需求进行思考的方式。在这篇简短的文章中，我概述了观看策略，该策略可以通过探索看似平常的和每天出汗的汗水来发展，而这些汗水是在没有所谓的“室内气候控制”或空调的情况下进行的。