Earth Theory
This is in response to the need for meaningful deep-time narratives and the appropriate philosophy of the Earth.
Cf. geology, geoethics.
The need:
- impossible to have correct ethics without the accurate conceptual image of the world
- impossible to resist common biases without such a picture (towards human, towards life, towards habits, towards now)
Clark, Nigel, and Yasmin Gunaratnam. “Earthing the Anthropos? From ‘Socializing the Anthropocene’ to Geologizing the Social.” European Journal of Social Theory 20, no. 1 (2017): 146–63. https://doi.org/10/gfztzj.
Clark, Nigel, and Bronislaw Szerszynski. Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.
Nail, Thomas. Theory of the Earth. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.
Bjornerud, Marcia. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Symbiotic planet, and beyond that the planet that is dynamic and creative before life.
Margulis, Lynn. The Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution. London: Phoenix, 2001.
On the wholeness of the Earth
Neyrat, Frédéric, and Drew S. Burk. “Eccentric Earth.” Diacritics 45, no. 3 (2017): 4–21. https://doi.org/10/gpxcjr.
Geology as the "the Earth’s own scientific investigations of itself" Cf. concept.creativity (Private)
Clark, Nigel. Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011.
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