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Chapter 19 - Planetary Poetics

from Part III - Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Joel Evans
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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This chapter articulates what it calls a ‘planetary poetics’. To set the stage for his presentation, Moraru underscores that not only are ‘globe’ and ‘planet’ hardly equivalent, but they are not givens either. Rather, he argues, ‘globe’ and ‘planet’ are products, something done to the world, made in and out of it. World-making and remaking forms, they are outcomes of worlding, that is, of highly complex, interrelated changes leading to intensified and vastly transformative interactions of the world’s various parts economically, culturally and otherwise, much though the same world’s animate and inanimate systems, at whose expense socio-economic growth and integration have been de facto unfolding, have been concomitantly coming under unprecedented threat or even disintegrating. Where a certain poverty of the critical imagination limits standard takes on the late global era to self-congratulatory ‘uncovering’ of the world-as-globe realities, Moraru’s planetary approach enriches this conventional critical vista by recovering a more nuanced, present-grounded yet future-oriented picture. A record of world-making or world-poiesis, this picture lends itself to a reading whose job is a reverse engineering of sort of planetary poetics by attending to the worldings that have led to the world geocultural aggregate as we know it.

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Print publication year: 2022

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