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Signed by Author Trade paperback Tight binding Unmarked text Slight edge wear This book is in French. A richly illustrated book to understand how mastery of the entire Earth has become a geopolitical issue. From images of Apollo to world maps depicting global warming or to photographs of Earth seen from the sky by Arthus-Bertrand, the Earth has become both an object of surveillance and global knowledge, of aesthetic contemplation as well as an ecological pop icon. From the first balloon photographs to the surveillance of the Earth by satellites, a new visual culture and a new technosphere have been created which now envelop the entire planet. This view "from above" is heir to a perspective favored by strategists and warlords. Thus, finitude and fragility, but also hubris of control represent the two inseparable facets of Western environmental sensitivity. Mankind has found itself led to accept the closed and dangerously limited nature of the planet, but this view of the Earth as a "spaceship" has…
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La Terre vue d'en haut : L'invention de l'environnement global Paperback - 2014
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- Title La Terre vue d'en haut : L'invention de l'environnement global
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- Date 2014
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La Terre vue d'en haut. L'invention de l'environnement global (Anthropocène) (French Edition)
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