Blake's Deep Ecology

Lussier, Mark

doi:10.2307/25601181

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“…. ] found a new relevance for the type of thought experiments that define romantic poetics, which helps explain why scientists, with increased frequency have turned to literature for names, concepts, and images" [52]. Not surprisingly, it was Golding-the writer-who suggested the mythical name of Gaia-the 'earth goddess'-to geophysicist James Lovelock as the name for his new model that geo-biologically reframed Earth Systems Sciences in 1972.…”

Section: The Anthropocene Prometheusmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Morphology of Prometheus, Literary Geography and the Geoethical Project

Travis

2021

Geosciences

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This paper explores mappings, musings and ‘thought experiments’ in literary geography to consider how they may contribute to geoethical pedagogy and research. Representations of Prometheus from the fourteenth century onwards have traveled along three broad symbological roads: first, as the creator, and bringer of fire; second as a bound figure in chains, and thirdly, unbound. However, it was the harnessing of fire by our species a millennium prior that gave rise to the myth of Prometheus and set into motion the geophysical process of combustion which “facilitated the transformation of much of the terrestrial surface […] and in the process pushed the parameters of the earth system into a new geological epoch.” As the geophysicist Professor Michael Mann observes, global warming and loss of biodiversity constitutes an ethical problem. The remediation of the Prometheus myth in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or the modern Prometheus (1818), Jonathan Fetter-Vorm’s Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012) and William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies (1954) provides the means to explore the geographical, historical and cultural contingencies of geoethical dilemmas contributing to the framing of the Anthropocene and Gaia heuristics. This paper argues for the necessity of scholars in the arts, humanities and geosciences to share and exchange idiographic and nomothetic perspectives in order to forge a geoethical dialectic that fuses poetic and positivistic methods into transcendent ontologies and epistemologies to address the existential questions of global warming and loss of biodiversity as we enter the age of the Anthropocene.

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Section: The Anthropocene Prometheusmentioning

confidence: 99%