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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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nitzke, Solvejg (Author, Editor), Pethes, Nicolas (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017]
Series:Culture & theory.
Subjects:
Culture > Philosophy.
Earth (Planet) > Philosophy.
Terre > Philosophie.
Cultural studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Culture > Philosophy
Culture
Ecology
Literature
Mythology
Nature
Religion
Earth (Planet)
Erde.
Ganzheit
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Culture.
Earth.
Ecology.
General Literature Studies.
Home Planet.
Literature.
Media.
Mythology.
Nature.
Religion.
Utopia.
Electronic books.
Online-Ressource.
Littérature.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Visions of the "Blue Marble": technology, philosophy, fiction / Solvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes
  • Mathematical images of planet earth / Gabriele Gramelsberger
  • Google Earth: satellite images and the appropriation of the divine perspective / Angela Krewani
  • Mediating Gaia: literature, space, and cybernetics in the dissemination of Gaia discourse / Bruce Clarke
  • Why ecological awareness is loopy / Timothy Morton
  • "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 17th century literature and astronomy / Hania Siebenpfeiffer
  • "earth's slow turning into the dark": global networks of decay in W.G. Sebalds The Rings of Saturn / Nicholas Pethes
  • A whole earth movement: planetary mediation in Dietmar Dath's The Abolition of Species / Solvejg Nitzke.