Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation : : Transdisciplinary Perspectives.

• Author: Hughes, Ian.
• TeilnehmendeR: Byrne, Edmond.; Mullally, Gerard.; Sage, Colin.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Metaphor, transformation, and transdisciplinarity -- The language of transformation -- The importance of metaphor -- Properties of metaphors -- Metaphors draw on our physicality -- Metaphors are embedded in shared cultural contexts -- Metaphors influence our social reality and our perception of the natural world -- Metaphors can suggest specific modes of action -- Metaphors can enhance or inhibit effective communication -- Minding our language -- Metaphor and structure of the volume -- Transformation: The role of language -- Overview of chapters -- Metaphors of reason -- Myths and metaphors of unreason -- Metaphor, myth, and mind -- Metaphors of creativity and practice -- Conclusion: Language as catalyst for sustainable, transformative change -- References -- Part I: Metaphors of reason -- Chapter 2: Metaphors of technological change -- Introduction -- Metaphors and the unintended consequences of technology -- Metaphors of technological change -- Technological fix -- Technological determinism -- Technological dialogue -- Technological momentum -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Nitrogen, planetary boundaries, and the metabolic rift: Using metaphor for dietary transitions towards a safe operating space -- Introduction -- The Metabolic Rift: Forms of ecological rupture -- Planetary boundaries -- Nitrogen and the Global Food System -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Alchemical and cyborgian imaginings in technoscientific discourse relating to holistic turns in food processing and personalised nutrition -- Introduction -- Theoretical background -- Structural linguistics and the science of signs -- Structuralism and culinary signification.

Psychoanalysis of technoscience -- Cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor -- Literary analysis and defamiliarisation -- Cyborg imaginings for sustainable diets -- The factory as rational ideal -- Panoptic diets and molecularised discourse -- The cyborg as a (strange) holistic turn -- Food and non-food -- Alchemical imaginings for sustainable processing -- Alchemy and modern science -- Finding unity in chaos -- Waste-free but wasteful -- The dynamics of sustainable food discourse -- Metaphors as roadmaps for discovery -- Introduction to Lacan's four discourses -- Discourse analysis: The return to Holism -- Discourse of the university -- Discourse of the analyst -- Discourse of the hysteric -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Carbon budgets: A metaphor to bridge the science-policy interface on climate change action -- Introduction -- Global context -- Carbon budgets as an instrument of equitable climate action -- Irish context -- What can I do? Figure out your carbon budget! -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Myths and metaphors of unreason -- Chapter 6: Why the metaphor of complementary dualism, and metaphor itself, are foundational to achieving sustainability -- Complementary dualism and sustainability narratives -- The foundational value of metaphor in general -- Sustainable salvation through myth, metaphor, and the sacred? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Myth beyond metaphor: Myths in transition -- Introduction -- Mythopoesis and the Myth Gap -- Rationality and the death of myth -- Communicating science -- Unreal reality and the role of stories -- The positive myth -- Goethe's Faust as mythopoesis -- Mythopoesis or Mythoanastaino? -- Oedipal theme -- Conclusion: The potential for consolidating Myth and Science -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: The hare and the tortoise: Metaphorical lessons around sustainability.

Narrative one: Environmentalism as a social movement -- Narrative two: Climate change - An expert's opinion -- Narrative three: Niche versus mainstreaming -- Narrative four: A maturing civilisation -- Closing discussion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Part III: Metaphor, myth, and mind -- Chapter 9: Myth, metaphor, and parable in the psychoanalytic concept of development -- Environmental sustainability, sustainable development, and psychology -- The story of development in psychoanalysis -- Life stages, internal objects, and states of mind -- The myth of Narcissus - Early omnipotence to separation -- The myth of Oedipus - From omnipotent control to relationship -- The diverging paths of early development: Healthy and unhealthy narcissism -- Latency -- Adolescence -- Adulthood -- A parable of psychic development -- Reimagining sustainability -- Development as an ongoing creative process that is never complete -- The necessity of overcoming infantile narcissism -- Recognising the sacred -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10: The elusive target: Towards an understanding of the metaphors about dementia and sustainability -- The dementia conundrum -- Metaphors of dementia and sustainability -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: The shamanic dream as a metaphor of transformative change -- Dreams, indigenous peoples, and indigenous knowledge -- Eco-cosmologies and shamanic dreams -- Amazonia -- Anthropogenic forests of Amazonia -- Amerindian ontologies -- The Yanomami -- Brazilian indigenous Amazonia -- Davi Kopenawa: Yanomami spokesman and the "Dalai Lama" of the rainforest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Metaphors of creativity and practice -- Chapter 12: Joyce's arches/arcs/arks: Portals as metaphors of transition from the antediluvian Anthropocene -- Metaphor and metanoia -- James Joyce's portals of discovery.

The parallax power of portals -- Joyce's education and his model for how to live the good life -- Maieutics, mimesis, and educating for transition -- Conclusion: At the vestibule of hell -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13: Patterns of interference: The ethics of diffraction in Mike McCormack's solar bones -- Introduction -- The metaphor of diffraction -- Mike McCormack's Solar Bones -- Science and literature -- Time and space -- Environmental/personal crises -- Living with the chaos -- Hauntings, interruptions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14: The Rain Box: Raining on the radio and other stories -- Introduction -- Notes on Blindness (2016) -- Rain Room (2012) -- Difficult Joys (1995) -- (Jools Gilson, Difficult Joys, 1995) -- The Lios (2004) -- The Knitting Map (2005) -- Irish words for rain: The Rain Box (2017) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.