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''A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities How is it possible that you are-simultaneously-cells, atoms, a body, quarks, a component in an ecological network, a moment in the thermodynamic dispersal of the sun, and an element in the gravitational w…
Introduction: Learning to scale -- Distance and resolution : the first experiential origin of scale -- Measurement and perspective : the second experiential origin of scale -- Scope and accumulation : the third experiential origin of scale -- To the bottom : the first thought ex…
"A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities"--
"A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities"--
"Many of us have encountered a version of what Zachary Horton calls the "cosmic zoom"--a visual journey through the many scales of the universe, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Most of our daily perception operates at a level of scale somewhere between that of quarks and gal…
Scale theory -- Surfaces of mediation: Cosmic view as drama of resolution -- An analog universe : mediating scalar temporality in the Eameses' toy films -- Shaping scale : Powers of ten and the politics of trans-scalar constellation -- Scale and difference : toward a new ecology…
"Many of us have encountered a version of what Zachary Horton calls the "cosmic zoom"--a visual journey through the many scales of the universe, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Most of our daily perception operates at a level of scale somewhere between that of quarks and gal…
"Many of us have encountered a version of what Zachary Horton calls the "cosmic zoom"--a visual journey through the many scales of the universe, from the microscopic to the cosmic. Most of our daily perception operates at a level of scale somewhere between that of quarks and gal…
"This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges c…
"This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges c…
The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theo…