Contents
1. A Book with an Edge
2. Cosmodernism and the Planet
3. Planetarism: History, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Problem of Interpretation
4. Steps toward a Geomethodology: Brief Outline
5. Wording the World, Worlding the Word
6. Post–Cold War Globalization
7. “World” into “Globe”
8. The Global Paradigm
9. The Rise of the Netosphere
10. Planetary Studies
11. “World” Reloaded
12. “Globe” into “Planet”
13. The Planetary Paradigm
14. Politics, Poetics, Epistemology
15. The Face of the Earth
16. The Infinite and the Infinitesimal, Cosmos and Cosmetics
17. “A Single Embrace”: Turn of the Planet, Turn to the Planet
18. The Space of Method
19. Getting the Picture: Rationality, Relationality, Distance
20. The Telescopic, the Microscopic, and Planetary“Quilting Points”
21. Cosmology and Cosmallogy
22. “Mondializing” the City: Blueprints and Constellations
23. The Origami Face
24. Balzacian Reeducation
25. Freudian Reeducation: Mao, Muo, and “Geopsychoanalysis”
26. Taking Shelter
27. “Greetings from Other Worlds”
28. Snowflakes: The Imagination as Geopositioning Technology
29. The Beirut Wall
30. Chiasmic Spatiality, Planetarity, and the “Monumental” Novel
31. “Where the Print Is Finest”
32. Strings of Life
33. Mastering the Mystery
Notes
Bibliography
Index