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Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

Christian Moraru
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In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent "planetary" imaginary—a "planetarism"—binding in unprecedented ways the world's peoples, traditions, and aesthetic practices. This imaginary, Moraru further contends, speaks to a world condition ("planetarity") increasingly exhibited by human expression worldwide. Grappling with the symptoms of planetarity in the arts and the human sciences, the author insists, is a major challenge for today's scholars—a challenge_ Reading for the Planet _means to address. Thus, Moraru takes decisive steps toward a critical methodology—a "geomethodology"—for dealing with planetarism's aesthetic and philosophical projections. Here, Moraru analyzes novels by Joseph O'Neill, Mircea Cartarescu, Sorj Chalandon, Zadie Smith, Orhan Pamuk, and Dai Sijie, among others, as demonstration of his paradigm.
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  • Prologue • A Well-Tempered Manifesto
    • §1. A Book with an Edge
    • §2. Cosmodernism and the Planet
    • §3. Planetarism: History, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Problem of Interpretation
    • §4. Steps toward a Geomethodology: Brief Outline
  • Part 1 • World, Globe, Planet
    • I
      • §5. Wording the World, Worlding the Word
      • §6. Post–Cold War Globalization
      • §7. “World” into “Globe”
      • §8. The Global Paradigm
      • §9. The Rise of the Netosphere
    • II
      • §10. Planetary Studies
      • §11. “World” Reloaded
      • §12. “Globe” into “Planet”
      • §13. The Planetary Paradigm
      • §14. Politics, Poetics, Epistemology
  • Part 2 • Geomethodology: Theory and Practice
    • I
      • §15. The Face of the Earth
      • §16. The Infinite and the Infinitesimal, Cosmos and Cosmetics
      • §17. “A Single Embrace”: Turn of the Planet, Turn to the Planet
      • §18. The Space of Method
      • §19. Getting the Picture: Rationality, Relationality, Distance
      • §20. The Telescopic, the Microscopic, and Planetary “Quilting Points”
    • II
      • §21. Cosmology and Cosmallogy
      • §22. “Mondializing” the City: Blueprints and Constellations
      • §23. The Origami Face
      • §24. Balzacian Reeducation
      • §25. Freudian Reeducation: Mao, Muo, and “Geopsychoanalysis”
      • §26. Taking Shelter
      • §27. “Greetings from Other Worlds”
      • §28. Snowflakes: The Imagination as Geopositioning Technology
      • §29. The Beirut Wall
      • §30. Chiasmic Spatiality, Planetarity, and the “Monumental” Novel
      • §31. “Where the Print Is Finest”
  • Epilogue • Criticism as Planetary Stewardship
    • §32. Strings of Life
    • §33. Mastering the Mystery
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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  • 978-0-472-05279-0 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-00385-3 (audio download)
  • 978-0-472-12132-8 (ebook)
  • 978-0-472-07279-8 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literary Studies:Modern Literature
  • American Studies
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