Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity

Artificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity

Climate change
Ecological science, the Biosphere
Applied ecology

rtificial Earth: A Genealogy of Planetary Technicity offers an intellectual history of humanity as a geological force, focusing on a prevalent contradiction in the Anthropocene discourse on global environmental change: on the one hand, it has been argued that there are hardly any pristine environments anymore, to the degree that the concept of nature has lost its meaning; while on the other, that anthropogenic environmental change has become so prevailing that it ought to be conceived of as a force of nature, in the literal sense of the expression. Artificial Earth argues that to fully grasp the stakes of this discourse, we need not only understand the contemporary scientific and technological transformations behind the Anthropocene, but also explore the history of an ontological concern tied up with it. In order to do so, Artificial Earth examines reflections on the ontological dualism between nature and artifice within the history of earth science from the late eighteenth century onwards.

Andersson, Johan Daniel

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121357

punctum books

2023

Wahyuni

Pdf

English

Textbooks

DOI
10.53288/0406.1.00

ISBN
9781685711306