Intro -- Contents -- Prologue. A Well-Tempered Manifesto -- 1. A Book with an Edge -- 2. Cosmodernism and the Planet -- 3. Planetarism: History, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Problem of Interpretation -- 4. Steps toward a Geomethodology: Brief Outline -- Part 1. World, Globe, Planet -- I -- 5. Wording the World, Worlding the Word -- 6. Post-Cold War Globalization -- 7. "World" into "Globe" -- 8. The Global Paradigm -- 9. The Rise of the Netosphere -- II -- 10. Planetary Studies -- 11. "World" Reloaded -- 12. "Globe" into "Planet" -- 13. The Planetary Paradigm -- 14. Politics, Poetics, Epistemology -- Part 2. Geomethodology: Theory and Practice -- I -- 15. The Face of the Earth -- 16. The Infinite and the Infinitesimal, Cosmos and Cosmetics -- 17. "A Single Embrace": Turn of the Planet, Turn to the Planet -- 18. The Space of Method -- 19. Getting the Picture: Rationality, Relationality, Distance -- 20. The Telescopic, the Microscopic, and Planetary"Quilting Points" -- II -- 21. Cosmology and Cosmallogy -- 22. "Mondializing" the City: Blueprints and Constellations -- 23. The Origami Face -- 24. Balzacian Reeducation -- 25. Freudian Reeducation: Mao, Muo, and "Geopsychoanalysis" -- 26. Taking Shelter -- 27. "Greetings from Other Worlds" -- 28. Snowflakes: The Imagination as Geopositioning Technology -- 29. The Beirut Wall -- 30. Chiasmic Spatiality, Planetarity, and the "Monumental" Novel -- 31. "Where the Print Is Finest" -- Epilogue. Criticism as Planetary Stewardship -- 32. Strings of Life -- 33. Mastering the Mystery -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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