The planetary turn : relationality and geoaesthetics in the twenty-first century
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The planetary turn : relationality and geoaesthetics in the twenty-first century
Northwestern University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-267)
Contents of Works
- Introduction: The planetary condition / Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru
- Planetary poetics : world literature, Goethe, Novalis, and Yoko Tawada's translational writing / John D. Pizer
- Terraqueous planet : the case for oceanic studies / Hester Blum
- The commons ... and digital planetarity / Amy J. Elias
- The possibility of cyber-placelessness : digimodernism on a planetary platform / Alan Kirby
- Archetypologies of the human : planetary performatism, cinematic relationality, and Inarritu's Babel / Raoul Eshelman
- Planetarity, performativity, relationality : Claire Denis's Chocolat and cinematic ethics / Laurie Edson
- Gilgamesh's planetary turns / Wai Chee Dimock
- Writing for the planet : contemporary Australian fiction / Paul Giles
- The white globe and the paradoxical cartography of Berger & Berger : a meditation on deceptive evidence / Bertrand Westphal
- Comparing contemporary arts; or, figuring planetarity / Terry Smith
- Beyond the flaming walls of the world : fantasy, alterity, and the postnational constellation / Robert T. Tally Jr
- Decompressing culture : three steps toward a geomethodology / Christian Moraru
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A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geo-culture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet-as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme-is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which twenty-first-century writers and artists picture themselves and their work. In an introduction that comprehensively defines the planetary model of art, culture, and cultural-aesthetic interpretation, the editors explain how the living planet is emerging as distinct from older concepts of globalization, cosmopolitan-ism, and environmentalism and is becoming a new ground for exciting work in contemporary literature, visual and media arts, and social humanities. Written by internationally recognized scholars, the twelve essays that follow illustrate the unfolding of a new vision of potential planetary community that retools earlier models based on the nation-state or political "blocs" and reimagines cultural, political, aesthetic, and ethical relationships for the post-Cold War era.
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