Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology
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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Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology
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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Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

by Christian Moraru
Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology
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Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

by Christian Moraru

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472121328
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/05/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 547 KB

About the Author

Christian Moraru is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His latest books include Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001), Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (2005), the edited collection Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination (2009), and Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2010).

Table of Contents

Contents 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 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 10. Planetary Studies 11. “World” Reloaded 12. “Globe” into “Planet” 13. The Planetary Paradigm 14. Politics, Poetics, Epistemology 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” 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” 32. Strings of Life 33. Mastering the Mystery Notes Bibliography Index
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