The Planetary Turn : Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century /

A groundbreaking collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planetâ€"as territory, sociopolitical arena, space of interaction for life, and artistic themeâ€"is increasingly the conceptual and political dimen...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 and 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.