Imagining Earth: Concepts of Wholeness in Cultural Constructions of Our Home PlanetSolvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes 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. |
Contents
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Mathematical Images of Planet Earth | 23 |
Google Earth Satellite Images and the Appropriation of the Divine Perspective | 45 |
Mediating Gaia Literature Space and Cybernetics in the Dissemination of Gaia Discourse | 61 |
Why Ecological Awareness is Loopy | 91 |
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 17t... | 113 |
earths slow turning into the dark Global Networks of Decay in WG Sebalds The Rings of Saturn ... | 139 |
A Whole Earth Monument Planetary Mediation in Dietmar Daths The Abolition of Species | 155 |
Contributors | 171 |
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Abolition of Species aesthetic agriculture agrilogistical algorithmic Anthropocene Apollo Apollo 17 appearance astronomical biological biosphere Blaeu Blue Marble Blumenberg Boes Browne’s cartographic celestial Cellarius century climate CoEvolution Quarterly concept Cosgrove cosmic cultural Cyrano Dath’s early modern Earth’s atmosphere Earthrise ecological empirical environmental essay evolution existing fictional Gaia discourse Gaia hypothesis Gaia theory Gaia’s Gaian gaze geoweb global warming globe Godwin Gonzales Google Earth Google Maps Gramelsberger home planet human Huygens Ibid idea image of Earth James James Lovelock Lazier LIDAR lifeforms literature living loop Lovelock and Margulis Lynn Lynn Margulis Mars mathematical means Moon name of Gaia narrative narrator NASA nature notion novel observation orbit perspective philosophy photograph planet Earth planetary representation Rings of Saturn scientific Sebald’s technologies things tion tradition University Press visible vision visual Wells’s Whole Earth Whole Earth Catalog Whole Earth-images World Meteorological Organization