Reading for the planet : toward a geomethodology / Christian Moraru.
In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent "planetary" imaginary--a "planetarism"--binding in unprecedented ways the world's peoples, tra...
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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A well-tempered manifesto. A book with an edge
- Cosmodernism and the planet
- Planetarism : history, the cultural imaginary, and the problem of interpretation
- Steps toward a geomethodology : brief outline
- World, globe, planet. Wording the world, worlding the word
- Post-Cold War globalization
- "World" into "globe"
- The global paradigm
- The rise of the netosphere
- Planetary studies
- "World" reloaded
- "Globe" into "planet"
- The planetary paradigm
- Politics, poetics, epistemology
- Geomethodology : theory and practice. The face of the Earth
- The infinite and the infinitesimal, cosmos and cosmetics
- "A single embrace" : turn of the planet, turn to the planet
- The space of method
- Getting the picture : rationality, relationality, distance
- The telescopic, the microscopic, and planetary "quilting points"
- Cosmology and cosmallogy
- "Mondializing" the city : blueprints and constellations
- The origami face
- Balzacian reeducation
- Freudian reeducation : Mao, Muo, and "geopsychoanalysis"
- Taking shelter
- "Greetings from other worlds"
- Snowflakes : the imagination as geopositioning technology
- The Beirut Wall
- Chiasmic spatiality, planetarity, and the "monumental" novel
- "Where the print is finest."