Beyond Whole Earth: Planetary Mediation and the Anthropocene

This article examines the hermeneutic and poetic operations by which we as human beings turn our very planet into a signifier for our collective existence as a species, a process which I refer to as “planetary mediation.” I identify the so-called Whole Earth images first generated by the Apollo Spac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boes, Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2014-11-01
Series:Environmental Humanities
Online Access:http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol5/5.9.pdf