Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nitzke, Solvejg[Herausgeber]
• Pethes, Nicolas,
• Nitzke, Solvejg,

Titel

Imagining Earth : concepts of wholeness in cultural constructions of our home planet

Ist Teil von

• Edition Kulturwissenschaft : 142

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Bielefeld, Germany : Transcript,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2017]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Mathematical Images of Planet Earth 23 Google Earth 45 Mediating Gaia 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.« 113 »earth's slow turning into the dark« 139 A Whole Earth Monument 155 Contributors 171
• 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.
• Besprochen in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 22.11.2017, David Kuchenbuch
• funded by Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection
• This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license:
• Solvejg Nitzke (Dr. phil.), born in 1985, is a scholar of literary and cultural studies. Her research interests are catastrophe, ecological story-telling and Science Fiction. She published among other topics on the Tunguska event and Christoph Ransmayrs poetics of time.
• Nicolas Pethes (Dr. phil.), born 1970, is professor of modern German literature and comparative literary history at Universität zu Köln. His research focuses on the media history of literature, the history of science, cultural memory studies and popular culture.
• In English.
• Description based on print version record.