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Published: 18 August 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387275-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8727-5
Book Chapter

By Lisa Messeri
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7391-9
... place planetary science planetary imagination planet ...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373919-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7391-9
... The introduction brings the reader into the world of planetary science. A brief background is given of the field, and literature in anthropology, geography, and science studies is brought together to support the central claim that planets humans have never set foot on are nevertheless places...
Book Chapter

By Peter Adey
Published: 16 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5957-8
... planetary science fiction agonism ...
Published: 16 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059578-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5957-8
... and categories that have recurred within the book before concluding with a reaffirmation of the agonisms of emergency and evacuation politics as both a mode of critique and a site of possibility. planetary science fiction agonism ...
Published: 20 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373254-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7325-4
... This chapter criticizes continuing tendencies to sociocentrism and humanist exceptionalism in the humanities and human sciences. To discern these tendencies in their strong form the chapter compares four diverse modernists: Rousseau, Isaiah Berlin, Hayek, and Marx. The idea of the Anthropocene...
Published: 20 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373254-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7325-4
... end of life itself 250 million years ago and the extinction of the Neanderthal 280,000 years ago. These explorations extend our grasp of the bumpiness of planetary processes such as climate, methane bursts, and volcanoes, and they underline how important it is for humanists to engage the earth...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 04 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024538-018
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2453-8
... The chapter reports on wave science in the Southern Hemisphere, drawing not only from the first conference on the topic in Australia, but also on Zoom fieldwork with scientists on the Bay of Bengal, in Bangladesh, where legacies of colonialism mix with future-facing projects to refashion land...
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374763-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7476-3
... that conveys that the zombie is a morally and futuristically cautionary figure. The chapter ruminates not only on the figure of the zombie but also more generally on the ways the genres of horror and science fiction, seemingly removed form literary realism, can adeptly effect social critiques of colonialism...