Processes of modernization through which the very idea of “the West” hasīeen differentiated on a single global surface.“Globalization” disrupts such Were anticipated long before the photographs themselves were taken.Ĭontemporary globalization is Western in its origins and integrated into That achievement echoes through the language and imagery of globalization.īut the slightest reflection reveals that for all its radical newness,actually witnessing the globe culminates a long genealogy of imagining and reflecting
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Humans physically witness the full Earth turning in space, and the impact of Only in the late twentieth century did any But in their imagination they can grasp the whole of the earth,Īs a surface or a solid body, to locate it within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of it. My fundamental question is simple: what have been the historical implications for the West of conceivingĪnd representing the earth as a unitary,regular body of spherical form? Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part of the planetary surface. Images of the globe.What initially seemed a simple task became rapidly overwhelming as I began to glimpse the historical depth and cultural complexity of the earth’s deceptively simple form. Its intellectual task is, byĭefinition, to describe the globe’s surface.This book originated in a requestįor a geographical reading of a photographic exhibition containing satellite Geography lays particular claim to the globe. Glance at newspapers and magazines, television, or advertising. Their expressive and political force.The fascination that global images exercise over the millennial imagination is apparent from even the most casual Powered by technological innovation, by capital’s restless search for investment opportunities, by geopolitical ambition, by ideological or religious fervor, even by touristic desire andĪdventure, globalization is a hydra of modernity.Whether pictured as a networked sphere of accelerating circulation or as an abused and overexploitedīody, it is from images of the spherical earth that ideas of globalization draw Globalization is a driving idea of our times. Soit donc ton ame en temps de piëté garnie. Que Dieu peut de sa main trancher comme un festu: Pendent à un filet bien tendre & bien menu, Tous affaires humains, avecq leur fraisle vie Title.Ī catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.įrontispiece: ealizing the global vision from space: Earthrise, . Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataĪpollo’s eye : a cartographic genealogy of the earth in the Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper © The Johns Hopkins University Press
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