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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
Seiten 7 - 22 -
Mathematical Images of Planet Earth
Seiten 23 - 44 -
Google Earth
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Mediating Gaia
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.«
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»earth's slow turning into the dark«
Seiten 139 - 154 -
A Whole Earth Monument
Seiten 155 - 170 -
Contributors
Seiten 171 - 174
19 July 2017, 174 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-3956-2
File size: 2.2 MB