Imagining Earth
Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet
While concepts of Earth have a rich tradition, more recent examples show a distinct quality: Though ideas of wholeness might still be related to mythical, religious, or utopian visions of the past, "Earth" itself has become available as a whole. This raises several questions: How are the notions of one Earth or our Planet imagined and distributed? What is the role of cultural imagination and practices of signification in the imagination of "the Earth"? Which theoretical models can be used or need to be developed to describe processes of imagining Planet Earth? This collection invites a wide range of perspectives from different fields of the Humanities to explore the means of imagining Earth.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Introduction. Visions of the »Blue Marble«. Technology, Philosophy, Fiction
Seiten 7 - 22 -
Mathematical Images of Planet Earth
Seiten 23 - 44 -
Google Earth. Satellite Images and the Appropriation of the Divine Perspective
Seiten 45 - 60 -
Mediating Gaia. Literature, Space, and Cybernetics in the Dissemination of Gaia Discourse
Seiten 61 - 90 -
Why Ecological Awareness is Loopy
Seiten 91 - 112 -
»Again, the Earth (which ever I held in mine eye) did as it were mask it selfe with a kind of brightness like another Moone.« Inventing ›Blue Marble‹ in 17
Seiten 113 - 138 -
»earth's slow turning into the dark« Global Networks of Decay in W.G. Sebalds The Rings of Saturn
Seiten 139 - 154 -
A Whole Earth Monument. Planetary Mediation in Dietmar Dath's The Abolition of Species
Seiten 155 - 170 -
Contributors
Seiten 171 - 174
2017-07-19, 174 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3956-8
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