Notes From Deep Time
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Digressions In Deep Time
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Author : Declan Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Digressions In Deep Time written by Declan Lloyd and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Nature categories.
“Deep time” is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make the entirety of human existence appear as little more than a footnote. The past few years have seen a boom in texts dedicated to the study of deep time, extending across a broad range of disciplines which fall markedly outside of its geological roots. These studies are unified by two ideas in particular: that deep time thinking and ecocriticism should be considered in conjunction, and that literature and the arts play a vital role in fostering a deep time awareness. Digressions in Deep Time is the first collection of essays which considers the multifarious representations of deep time across literature and the arts, assembling the work of a wide range of prominent scholars whose research frequently engages with temporality and ecocriticism. Featured contributions include work by the Pulitzer-prize winning author John McPhee, who popularised the term deep time in the late seventies, as well as chapters by Richard Irvine (author of An Anthropology of Deep Time), Benjamin Morgan (author of The Outward Mind) and Andrew Tate (author of Apocalyptic Fiction).
Scenes From Deep Time
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Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-12-15
Scenes From Deep Time written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-15 with Art categories.
How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.
Deep Time
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Author : Noah Heringman
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-03
Deep Time written by Noah Heringman and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Deep Time: A Literary History challenges the exclusive association between deep time and the modern science of geology by focusing on late Enlightenment writings that used narrative form to integrate new empirical data and methods with Western and non-Western traditions of chronology, earth history, and human origins. Choosing the mid-eighteenth century as a starting point, Heringman aims to demonstrate how deep time became associated with Earth history in the first place, expanding its conceptual domain to include colonial natural history, oral tradition, and scientific romance-all frontiers of the expanded time horizons associated with modernity. It considers the conceptual opening of a modern geological timescale in literary, scientific, and travel writing in the late-Enlightenment/Romantic period, with chapters on the explorer-naturalist team of John Reinhold and George Forster, who sailed with Captain Cook (1772-1775); Buffon's protogeochronological Epochs of Nature (1778); Herder, Blake, and prehistory through oral tradition; and Charles Darwin's dialogue with anthropology and archaeology, especially in The Descent of Man (1871). When eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers, naturalists, poets, and philosophers wrote about the "abyss of time," they referred to a large and diverse set of new ideas that unsettled the established time scale: ideas about cultural evolution inspired by Pacific peoples recently encountered by James Cook and other voyagers; a new sense of the depth and diversity of the Earth's strata, produced by increased attention to their structure and deposition; the study of oral traditions by poets and scholars associated with the ballad revival; and the study of non-Western scriptures such as the Mahabharata, which calculated time on an entirely different scale. The latter two pursuits dovetailed with the investigations of voyagers from Johann Reinhold Forster to Charles Darwin, who sought to measure the age of non-European civilizations by way of the geological age of their environments. Ultimately, Heringman argues that the concept of deep time, now associated primarily with modern geology, "was a composite of human and natural history to begin with.""--
The Politics Of Deep Time
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Author : Frederic Hanusch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-07
The Politics Of Deep Time written by Frederic Hanusch 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 2023-12-07 with Law categories.
Human societies increasingly interact with processes on a geological or even cosmic timescale. Despite this recognition, we still lack a basic understanding of these interconnections and how they translate into politics. This Element provides an exploration and systematization of 'the politics of deep time' as a novel lens of planetary politics in three steps. First, it demonstrates why deep-time interactions render the politics of deep time essential; second, it asks how deep time should be politicized and third, it explicates the politics of deep time by examining representative cases. The Element also formulates a conceptual framework to open up possibilities for alliances that seek to better understand and realize the politics of deep time, pioneering a debate on how planetary temporalities can be politically institutionalized. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Notes From Deep Time
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Author : Helen Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Notes From Deep Time written by Helen Gordon and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with Science categories.
'Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition' Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph 'Awe-inspiring ... She has imbued geological tales with a beauty and humanity' Shaoni Bhattacharya-Woodward, Mail on Sunday The story of the Earth is written into our landscape: it's there in the curves of hills, the colours of stone, surprising eruptions of vegetation. Wanting a fresh perspective on her own life, the writer Helen Gordon set out to read that epic narrative. Her odyssey takes her from the secret fossils of London to the 3-billion-year-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from a state-of-the-art earthquake monitoring system in California to one of the world's most dangerous volcanic complexes in Naples. At every step, she finds that the apparently solid ground beneath our feet isn't quite as it seems.
Extinct Monsters To Deep Time
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Author : Diana E. Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-02-18
Extinct Monsters To Deep Time written by Diana E. Marsh and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with Art categories.
Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time, the author provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public. From the introduction: In exhibit projects, the tension plays out between curatorial staff—academic, research, or scientific staff charged with content—and exhibitions, public engagement, or educational staff—which I broadly group together as “audience advocates” charged with translating content for a broader public. I have heard Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the NMNH, say many times that if you look at dinosaur halls at different museums across the country, you can see whether the curators or the exhibits staff has “won.” At the American Museum of Natural History in New York, it was the curators. The hall is stark white and organized by phylogeny—or the evolutionary relationships of species—with simple, albeit long, text panels. At the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Johnson will tell you, it was the “exhibits people.” The hall is story driven and chronologically organized, full of big graphic prints, bold fonts, immersive and interactive spaces, and touchscreens. At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where Johnson had previously been vice president and chief curator, “we actually fought to a draw.” That, he says, is the best outcome; a win on either side skews the final product too extremely in one direction or the other. This creative tension, when based on mutual respect, is often what makes good exhibitions.
Aging Experiments
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Author : João Paulo Guimarães
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2023-08-04
Aging Experiments written by João Paulo Guimarães and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-04 with Social Science categories.
The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of decline as well as fantasies of eternal youth, as defined by neoliberal notions of health, able-bodiedness, agency, self-improvement, progress, plasticity and productivity.
Coming To Grips With Genesis
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Author : Terry Mortenson
language : en
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
Release Date : 2008
Coming To Grips With Genesis written by Terry Mortenson and has been published by New Leaf Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
Foreword / Henry M. Morris -- Foreword / John MacArthur -- Prologue / Terry Mortenson, Thane Hutcherson Ury -- The Church Fathers on Genesis, the Flood, and the age of the Earth / James R. Mook -- A brief overview of the exegesis of Genesis 1-11 : Luther to Lyell / David W. Hall -- "Deep time" and the church's compromise : historical background / Terry Mortenson -- Is nature the 67th book of the Bible? / Richard L. Mayhue -- Contemporary hermeneutical approaches to Genesis 1-11 / Todd S. Beall -- The Genre of Genesis 1:1-2:3 : what means this text? / Steven W. Boyd -- Can deep time be embedded in Genesis? / Trevor Craigen -- A critique of the framework interpretation of the Creation Week / Robert V. McCabe -- Noah's Flood and its geological implications / William D. Barrick -- Do the Genesis 5 and 11 genealogies contain gaps? / Travis R. Freeman -- Jesus' view of the age of the Earth / Terry Mortenson -- Apostolic witness to Genesis Creation and the Flood / Ron Minton -- Whence cometh death? : a biblical theology of physical death and natural evil / James Stambaugh -- Luther, Calvin, and Wesley on the Genesis of natural evil : recovering lost rubrics for defending a "very good" creation / Thane H. Ury -- A biographical tribute to Dr. John C. Whitcomb Jr. / Paul J. Scharf -- Affirmations and denials essential to a consistent Christian (biblical) worldview
Mediarchy
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Author : Yves Citton
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-11-11
Mediarchy written by Yves Citton and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Social Science categories.
We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media. We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without realizing that ‘the people’ are always produced, both as individuals and as aggregates, by the media: we are all embedded in mediated publics, ‘intra-structured’ by the apparatuses of communication that govern our interactions. In this major book, Yves Citton maps out the new regime of experience, media and power that he designates by the term ‘mediarchy’. To understand mediarchy, we need to look both at the effects that the media have on us and also at the new forms of being and experience that they induce in us. We can never entirely escape from the effects of the mediarchies that operate through us but by becoming more aware of their conditioning, we can develop the new forms of political analysis and practice which are essential if we are to rise to the unprecedented challenges of our time. This comprehensive and far-reaching book will be essential reading for students and scholars in media and communications, politics and sociology, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the multiple and complex ways that the media – from newspapers and TV to social media and the internet – shape our social, political and personal lives today.
Deep Time Of The Media
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Author : Siegfried Zielinski
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-02-15
Deep Time Of The Media written by Siegfried Zielinski and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development—not by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated. Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development—dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery; in Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history—fractures in the predictable—that help us see the new in the old. Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history. He discovers the contributions of "dreamers and modelers" of media worlds, from the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles and natural philosophers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Russian avant-gardists of the early twentieth century. "Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated," Zielinski writes. He describes models and machines that make this connection: including a theater of mirrors in sixteenth-century Naples, an automaton for musical composition created by the seventeenth-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, and the eighteenth-century electrical tele-writing machine of Joseph Mazzolari, among others. Uncovering these moments in the media-archaeological record, Zielinski says, brings us into a new relationship with present-day moments; these discoveries in the "deep time" media history shed light on today's media landscape and may help us map our expedition to the media future.