Scale in Literature and Culture by Michael Tavel Clarke & David Wittenberg

Author:Michael Tavel Clarke & David Wittenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

2.“Spaceship earth ” is an unusually itinerant image, and one that was mobilized by ecological, environmentalist, conservationist, economic, speculative, policy, and governmental movements alike, though the values and goals motivating these various mobilizations were often quite divergent. The Whole Earth movement of Stewart Brand and the economic theory of Kenneth Boulding , both of which take “spaceship earth” as their mascot, offer an exemplary stark contrast.

3.Another attempt to assay the limits of the earth, consistent with both population bomb and space race impulses, is polar exploration. The history of Antarctic exploration begins a bit earlier and will not be my focus here, but it is important to note that Antarctica becomes significant in the cold war as bases are rapidly constructed there in the 1950s, culminating with the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. Cf. for instance DeLoughrey and Glasberg.

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