Globalization and Planetary Ethics: New Terrains of Consciousness

ISBN-13: 9781032222769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 220 str.

Simi Malhotra; Shraddha A. Singh; Zahra Rizvi

Opis

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview. The book explores themes like philosophical posthumanism and planetary concerns; disruption of cultural and intellectual inequality; bodily movement through nomadic subjectivity; dystopic spatialities of game(re)play; globalization, and speculative imaginaries of the body; and theory of multiplicity. It also discusses impact of COVID on human beings,  role of the neoliberal media, the question of rights of robots and cyborgs in sci-fi movies, and representation of refugees in literature.This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, political philosophy, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, critical theory, and social anthropology.

Recenzje

"This rich volume covered a wide range of philosophical, literary and ethical materials to place the work of the imagination its widest spatial contexts, ranging from the intimate to the planetary. The authors explore the actual, possible and probable terrains of the ethics of humanity in an epoch in which global challenges appear to be subsumed by the planetary crisis."

- Professor Arjun Appadurai

"This collection of essays is a valuable addition to the growing field of Anthropocene studies. Concerned with the globe, the earth, and our times, the essays included here dwell on planetary ethics in speculative, real, and imagined spaces. This book will speak to our sense of the present."

- Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty

Spis treści

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

SIMI MALHOTRA, SHRADDHA A. SINGH, AND ZAHRA RIZVI

PART I

Dissonance and Us 9

1 Portal, the Front, Wound: Three Metaphors to Explore the Planetary Crisis 11

JOFF P. N. BRADLEY

2 Philosophical Posthumanism and Planetary Concerns 29

FRANCESCA FERRANDO AND SHRADDHA A. SINGH

3 Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Disrupting the Cultural and Intellectual Inequality Pipeline 37

PEGGY LEVITT

4 Rethinking Metaphorical and Bodily Movement through Nomadic Subjectivity and Identity 50

VENYA PATEL

5 To Dream Again: Thoughts on Island Soundscapes and Environmentalism 65

PRIYA PARROTTA NATARAJAN

PART II

Discord, Dystopias, and Utopias 77

6 Becoming Utopian in a Threatened Order 79

TOM MOYLAN

7 Exploring Dystopic Spatialities of Game(re)play: A Study of Papers, Please and Orwell 93

ZAHRA RIZVI

8 Seeking a World of Their Own: Looking for ‘Human’ Rights in a Mechanized, Futuristic World 105

ARPITA SEN

9 Re-Orienting Reading: Ergodic Form of Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions 120

AINEE BASIR

PART III

Disparity and Speculative Overtures 131

10 An Open Letter from Rattus Norvegicus to New York City 133

RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM

11 “As Told to”: The Mediation of Refugee Voices in

Contemporary Short Fiction 143

MIRIAM WALLRAVEN

12 “I Am Also a We”: Pathic Communities and the Globalization of Affect in the Wachowskis’ Sense8 154

PAROMITA PATRANOBISH

13 Re-inscribing the World: Reflections on Sense-Making and Navigating the Networks of Global Capitalism 170

INDRANI DAS GUPTA

Index 187