Description:
A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet--as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme--is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which twenty-first-century writers and artists picture themselves and their work.
Review Quotes: "...this sophisticated 12-chapter volume... is a valuable staging post towards alternative imaginations of geography: relational spaces of worldly reciprocity and flow that confound established coordinates. Perhaps the strongest part of this book is the editors' introductory framing of planetarity, which offers a panoramic view of the concept's intellectual history and its clashes and overlaps with theories of globalisation and cosmopolitanism. This is important reading for scholars of planetarity discourse... the book feeds into a larger poetic and political project of reimagining world geographies that exceed capitalist globalisation." --Cultural Geographies