| Popis: |
This chapter questions the image of Earth as full and complete, symbolized by the iconic Earthrise photograph. This approach is argued to foreclose the possibility of producing accounts of Earth that could enhance our understanding of its deeper, ecological dimension in the face of climate change and globalization. Taking my cue from Bruno Latour’s geopolitics and Peter Sloterdijk’s spheres project, a speculative mode of global synthesis is presented in the form of Reza Negarestani’s geophilosophical realism. It constitutes an example of what is tentatively termed here “speculative cartography”—a multimodal way of producing “weirder” visions of Earth, which offers new conceptual coordinates and can be practiced not only in philosophy and cultural studies, but also—as the chapter demonstrates—in literature, art, and music. |
