The Planetary Turn : Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century / edited by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru.

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.

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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 dimension in which 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 planet is emerging as distinct from older concepts of globalization, cosmopolitanism, and environmentalism and is becoming a new ground for work in literature, art, and social humanities. Written by internationally recognized scholars, the twelve essays illustrate the unfolding of a new vision of potential planetary community that retools earlier models based on the nation-state or political â€oeblocsâ€_x009d_ and reimagines cultural, political, aesthetic, and ethical relationships for the postâ€"Cold War era

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