Title

Terraculturation, Political Dissolution, And Myriad Reorientations

Keywords

Myriad Reorientations; Political Dissolution; Terraculturation

Abstract

Starting with the idea that in science fiction many plots use the device of terraforming of alien planets' to make them more suitable for human inhabitation, this paper argues that more recently new works take this macroplot in a different direction: the need for reforming human beings on Earth to make them more suitable for inhabitation through terraculturation. Further, the work of terraculturation would necessarily lead to significant political dissolutions of national and state formations in order to make political structures more supportive of inhabitory practices. Cultural changes from terraculturation would then interactively precipitate and be pushed along by myriad reorientations taking place at every level of human activity. Examples are provided of literary works already modeling and encouraging this cultural reorientation.

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Publication Title

Tamkang Review

Volume

39

Issue

1

Number of Pages

3-18

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

63649104726 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/63649104726

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