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The New Catastrophism
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Author : Derek Ager
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-01-19
The New Catastrophism written by Derek Ager and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-19 with Science categories.
A re-examination of earth history in terms of rare and violent events through geological time.
Catastrophism
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Author : Sasha Lilley
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2012-10-05
Catastrophism written by Sasha Lilley and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-05 with Political Science categories.
We live in catastrophic times. The world is reeling from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, with the threat of further meltdowns ever-looming. Global warming and myriad dire ecological disasters worsen—with little if any action to halt them—their effects rippling across the planet in the shape of almost biblical floods, fires, droughts, and hurricanes. Governments warn that there is no alternative to the bitter medicine they prescribe—or risk devastating financial or social collapse. The right, whether religious or secular, views the present as catastrophic and wants to turn the clock back. The left fears for the worst, but hopes some good will emerge from the rubble. Visions of the apocalypse and predictions of impending doom abound. Across the political spectrum, a culture of fear reigns.? Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse—on the left and right, in the environmental movement—and examines why the lens of catastrophe can distort our understanding of the dynamics at the heart of these numerous disasters—and fatally impede our ability to transform the world. Lilley, McNally, Yuen, and Davis probe the reasons why catastrophic thinking is so prevalent, and challenge the belief that it is only out of the ashes that a better society may be born. The authors argue that those who care about social justice and the environment should jettison doomsaying—even as it relates to indisputably apocalyptic climate change. Far from calling people to arms, they suggest, catastrophic fear often results in passivity and paralysis—and, at worst, reactionary politics.?
Catastrophism
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Author : Richard J. Huggett
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1997
Catastrophism written by Richard J. Huggett and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Science categories.
One of the most dramatic intellectual events of the last decade has been the stunning re-emergence of the catastrophist paradigm in the biological and earth sciences From killer asteroids to emergent viruses, it has become evident that the history of life on earth has been shaped—far more than previous orthodoxies would allow ... by extreme events and non-linear processes. The old "uniformitarian" dogma of steady-rate evolution has been decisively challenged by the research of contemporary neo-catastrophists like Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, Stuart Ross Taylor, Ursula Marvin and Kenneth Hsu. Whether debating the origin of the moon or the current human impact on the biosphere, they urge us to recognize the radically event- or chance-driven structure of natural history. Surveying these various theories of uniformitarian and neo-catastrophist thought in a clear and accessible fashion, and seeking a path towards a new and workable synthesis, Richard Hugget provides a superb introduction to the ideas which have defined the way we look at the world.
Spinal Catastrophism
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Author : Thomas Moynihan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-12-03
Spinal Catastrophism written by Thomas Moynihan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with Philosophy categories.
The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and “organic memory” that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from “railway spine” to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.
Evolutionary Geology And The New Catastrophism
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Author : George McCready Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
Evolutionary Geology And The New Catastrophism written by George McCready Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with Catastrophes (Geology) categories.
Catastrophism In Geology
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Author : Reijer Hooykaas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Catastrophism In Geology written by Reijer Hooykaas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Catastrophes (Geology) categories.
Perilous Planet Earth
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Author : Trevor Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-12
Perilous Planet Earth written by Trevor Palmer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-12 with Nature categories.
A readable account of the history of natural disasters throughout history.
Catastrophism
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Author : Richard Huggett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Catastrophism written by Richard Huggett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Historical geology categories.
Controversy Catastrophism And Evolution
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Author : Trevor Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Controversy Catastrophism And Evolution written by Trevor Palmer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
In Controversy, Trevor Palmer fully documents how traditional gradualistic views of biological and geographic evolution are giving way to a catastrophism that credits cataclysmic events, such as meteorite impacts, for the rapid bursts and abrupt transitions observed in the fossil record. According to the catastrophists, new species do not evolve gradually; they proliferate following sudden mass extinctions. Placing this major change of perspective within the context of a range of ancient debates, Palmer discusses such topics as the history of the solar system, present-day extraterrestrial threats to earth, hominid evolution, and the fossil record.
Catastrophism
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Author : Sasha Lilley
language : en
Publisher: Merlin Press
Release Date : 2012-10-26
Catastrophism written by Sasha Lilley and has been published by Merlin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-26 with Catastrophical, The categories.
Amid a global zeitgeist of impending catastrophe, this book explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics, economic climate, and religious extremism. The authors of this collection argue that the lens of catastrophe through which so many of today's issues are examined distorts understanding of the dynamics at the heart of numerous problems, such as global warming, ultimately halting progress and transformation. Arguing that catastrophic thinking results in paralysis or reactionary politics, the authors posit that the myths of 2012 have negative affects across the political spectrum and urge activists not to give up their beliefs and instead focus on working on issues now instead of waiting until society has ended and needs to be rebuilt.