Imagining Earth : : concepts of wholeness in cultural constructions of our home planet / / Solvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes (editors).
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture & theory.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (175 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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