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Imagining Earth : Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home Planet / ed. by Nicolas Pethes, Solvejg Nitzke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 142Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (174 p.)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839439562
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleLOC classification:
  • HM621
  • HM
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mathematical Images of Planet Earth -- Google Earth -- Mediating Gaia -- Why Ecological Awareness is Loopy -- »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.« -- »earth's slow turning into the dark« -- A Whole Earth Monument -- Contributors
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mathematical Images of Planet Earth -- Google Earth -- Mediating Gaia -- Why Ecological Awareness is Loopy -- »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.« -- »earth's slow turning into the dark« -- A Whole Earth Monument -- Contributors

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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.

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