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Whither a Planetary Turn? A Roundtable

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In recent years the concept of planetarity has seen a meteoric rise among critical theorists. But they often leave its exact signi cance opaque or even actively obscure the meaning of ‘planet’. Can space history unearth a more accurate conceptualization by de-metaphorizing planetarity and fostering a spatial understanding of planet Earth instead? In this roundtable, a philosopher, a media theorist, a cultural historian, a historian of technology and a religious studies scholar discuss the uses of planetarity in their respective disciplines. They ask what all that planetarity talk is about, if proclaiming a planetary turn can be justified, and whether understanding the transformation of Earth into a planet over the course of the twentieth century necessitates an extra-terrestrial perspective.
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hal-04689897 , version 1 (06-09-2024)

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Brad Tabas. Whither a Planetary Turn? A Roundtable. NYU Space Talks, New York University, Oct 2024, New York, United States. ⟨hal-04689897⟩
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