Biosphere, Noosphere, and the Anthropocene
Earth’s Perilous Prospects in a Cosmic Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa H Sideris (Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 399-419 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.35055 |
| OpenAlex | W2789825599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Visions of a high-tech ‘good’ Anthropocene as well as ambitious world-making projects like Biosphere 2 have roots in a quasi-religious form of cosmism and attendant notions of the noosphere: a planetary sphere of mind. Cosmic perspectives often celebrate and naturalize an image of humans as participants in and ultimately directors of planetary and cosmic processes. This brand of cosmism encourages fantasies of fleeing our ‘used’ planet in search of our presumed interstellar destiny, and it encourages a disregard of earthly, ecological, and even bodily limits. I argue that the turn to planetary and cosmic perspectives is the wrong move for those who care about the future of the Earth and more-than human life
Anthropocene · Astrobiology · Astronomy · Biosphere · COSMIC cancer database · Destiny (ISS module · Environmental ethics · Physics · Planet · Planetary habitability · Planetary system · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |