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Planetary Idealism: The Technics of Nature in German Romanticism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Under contract with Stanford University Press
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Planetary Idealism<\/em> stages an unlikely encounter between German Idealism and concerns over the environmental impact of new technology. Under contract with Stanford University Press, it takes its cue from Dipesh Chakrabarty\u2019s suggestion that \u201cIf Hegel were alive to plumb the depths of our sense of the present, he would notice an awareness of the planet and of its geobiological history.\u201d While this awareness is often traced back to twentieth century technological developments like GPS or cybernetics, this book uncovers an understanding of the reciprocal determination of nature and technical media already at the end of the eighteenth century. Turning to writings from Hegel, Goethe, Schelling, Novalis, and H\u00f6lderlin, Planetary Idealism<\/em> explores how this incipient awareness of the intercalation of technics and the environment provokes an early effort to develop modes of inhabiting the planet that might withstand the rising tide of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Negentropic Orientations: Bernard Stiegler and the Future of the Digital<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Co-edited volume with Mark Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Negentropy and the Future of the Digital brings together some of the world\u2019s leading scholars in media history, computation studies, and cultural theory to reflect on the impact and legacy of Bernard Stiegler\u2019s work in a variety of fields, ranging from media and film studies, the history of science, to cultural and political theory. Since the 1994 publication of Technics and Time 1: the Fault of Epimetheus, Stiegler has emerged as one of the most prominent and certainly one of the most prolific scholars of media and technology. Stiegler\u2019s writings have come to span over two dozen volumes, many of which have been translated into multiple languages, including German, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. His books include Technics and Time 3: Kant and Cinema, which analyzes the history of cinema and the making of industrial modes of perception, the two-volume series Automatic Society, which reflects on the impact of digital automation on human labor and traditional knowledge production, and the Symbolic Misery series, which analyzes the impact of new technology in transforming the relationship between politics, new media, and the phenomenology of perception over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In some of the last volumes that appeared in English, such as The Age of Disruption and The Negenthropocene, Stiegler began exploring the role played by digital capital in the current state of ecological and political crisis around the globe. This concern for the future of the planet led Stiegler to organize the \u201cFriends of the Greta Thunberg Generation\u201d Institute at the Centre Pompidou and write The Lesson of Greta Thunberg, his final solo monograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Planetary Thinking in the Age of Goethe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

special issue of Modern Language Notes<\/em> with Daniel Carranza<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In recent years, critical discourse in the humanities has embraced what Amy Elias and Christian Morary have called a \u2018planetary turn,\u2019 appearing at the intersection of ecological, cosmological, and poetic concerns. While contributions to this mode of thinking have focused largely on the present, a number of theorists have turned to the Age of Goethe to begin excavating the complex entanglement of environmental, technological, and postcolonial issues evoked by our planetary present. Was not the \u201cawareness of the planet\u201d to which Chakrabarty refers already apparent in Karoline von G\u00fcnderrode\u2019s poetics, for example, or in the travel writings of Alexander von Humboldt? This special issue of Modern Language Notes<\/em> constellates diverse contributions that trace the incipient contours of this planetary thinking in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on a diverse array of poetic, scientific, ecological, and political concerns and figures.
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