Tag: Planetary

Free Download O’neil Van Horn, "On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics"
English | ISBN: 1531505562 | 2023 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
A bold, theoretical, and pragmatic book that looks to soil as a symbol for constructive possibilities for hope and planetary political action in the Anthropocene.

Free Download Simi Malhotra, "Globalization and Planetary Ethics"
English | ISBN: 103222276X | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview. The book explores themes like philosophical posthumanism and planetary concerns; disruption of cultural and intellectual inequality; bodily movement through nomadic subjectivity; dystopic spatialities of game(re)play; globalization, and speculative imaginaries of the body; and theory of multiplicity. It also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on human beings, the role of the neoliberal media, the question of rights of robots and cyborgs in sci-fi movies, and representation of refugees in literature.

Free Download Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009377574 | 243 Pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
While Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, can profitably be read as a global trilogy that presents a coherent historical account of how the emergence and spread of European modernity across the world have had devastating consequences for the planet and its inhabitants. This book sets a new agenda in Pynchon studies, charting his early anticipation of anthropocenic and planetary ideas, including globalization’s demand for constant growth. It combines close textual readings with broad perspectives on large thematic arcs and stylistic developments across Pynchon’s entire career as well as an extensive dialogue with the rich reception of his work.

Free Download Physics of Planetary Rings: Celestial Mechanics of Continuous Media by Alexei M. Fridman , Nikolai N. Gorkavyi
English | PDF | 1999 | 447 Pages | ISBN : 354064864X | 39.4 MB
Physics of Planetary Rings describes striking structures of the planetary rings of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, and Neptune: Narrow ringlets, spiral waves, and a chain of clumps. The author has contributed essential ideas to the full understanding of planetary rings via the stability analysis of dynamical systems. The combination of a high-quality description, the set of interesting illustrations, as well as the fascinating and natural presentation will make this book of considerable interest to astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians as well as students. There is no competing text for this book so far.

Free Download Mind the Gap: The Labyrinthine Story of Planetary Orbits, Mathematics, and the Titius-Bode Rule (400 Pages)
by Martin Beech
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811273979 | 401 pages | True PDF | 44.26 MB
This book is concerned with two tightly knit topics – those of mathematics and astronomy. Its focus is primarily concerned with planetary astronomy, and specifically the history of accounting for the spacing of planetary orbits. The story begins with the ancient Greek philosophers and continues to the modern era and the new data being gleaned from the study of exoplanetary systems. Throughout the text, the manner in which mathematical theory has been used to decipher, and impose order upon the solar system, will be examined. Attention and discussion will be directed towards the so-called Titius-Bode rule, a long-standing ordering principle, that in fact it has no physical underpinning or explanation.