RHETOR 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Earth System Science, Gaia Hypothesis, Earthrise
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Earthrise era > predicated on distinction between organism and mechanism (recall canguilhem) Lazier reads arendt as following heidegger her teacher: worried about sense of uprooting (false appreciation of the home, the earth misunderstood as some provisional space that we will transcend from into outer space) We don"t think: we"re orbiting the sun, we"re not on a flat surface. We don"t feel the curvature of the earth. H says: our life world is pre-copernicus in terms of the rhetoric of our experience - our language of our day to day experience is not predicated on scientific knowledge. Both providing grounds for critiquing visions of the earth that is linked to astronautics - the world perceived as a picture. Want to move toward an experience of the world as a globe. Even the earth is tiny compared to rest of our solar system, the universe, and our galaxy.
