Search

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics includes challenging conventional Anthropocene discourse, critique chronostratigraphy, question the geos versus anthropos divide, and challenge the assumed geological time stasis.

The article explores Pierre Jardin's pursuit of lithic and lithospheric rock and geologic respirations. Topics discussed are aerial imagination that inspired the geologic aspirations of Jardin, contemplation of atmospheric compositions, effect of altitude or elevation on the changes in breathing conditions and possibilities, stone as a form of terrestrial breathing, respiration cycle of the Earth, breathing of mountains in relation to different timescales, and role of faults in rock formations.

The article focuses on the xeriscape consisting of a garden designed and decorated with stones.

The article focuses on the use of stones in art, media and it's role in the geo-mythology which shows the connection between the Anthropos and the Geos. It talks about the history of human beings and of Earth along with the role of rocks in the geology. It tells about the earth and the stones in art and painting depict humanity along with the human behavior. It speaks about Anthropocene marking the end of humanity.

The article focuses on David Mitchell's fiction. A number of his works are mentioned including "Ghostwritten," "Cloud Atlas" and "The Bone Clocks." The author comments that in his fictions, Mitchell creates a complex dynamical tension by developing disparate stand-alone storylines. The cosmopolitan scope of his works is also discussed.

The article examines the novel "The Bone Clocks," by David Mitchell. It notes that this novel is an iteration of Mitchell's fractal imagination and follows a central character's life through six decades in six sections. The first and final chapters of this novel is being narrated by its protagonist Holly Sykes.

This article discusses essays within the issue, including works of Philip Goodchild and Christian Kerslake, that focuses on the writings and thinkings of Gilles Deleuze as the point of departure for the deliberation of the contemporary meaning of spiritual politics and associating it to the political and metaphysical crises of our moment.

The author practices his itinerant spirituality of Deleuze with an experimental reading of his work into spiritual contexts, attempting to reframe his plane of immanence as a version of the Imaginal plane, a plane of luminance. He looks at Deleuze's construction of the plane of immanence in Cinema 1, integrating Bergson and Einstein's concept of a plane composed of a universe of light, and performs his own thought-experiment. He cites that the plane of luminance he constructed provides a tool for thought into the spiritual meaning of Deleuze's writings.

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including contemporary French literature, an analysis in the Aristotelian system of representation occasioned by Romanticism, and a different way to reclaim Stoicism in contemporary theory.

The author reflects on the oscillation between the physical sense and metaphysical sense of nothing. It is claimed that the metaphysical approach to natural world is exemplified in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. The difference of corporeal bodies from incorporeal entities are provided. Vacuum and ether are the two most prominent physical concepts that best represented nothing as a corporeal body.

Introduces a series of articles focusing on the cultural and scientific dimensions of the human brain.

Explores the writings of philosopher Michel Serres. His conception of nature and knowledge; Universal appeal of his ideas; Expanse of the subject which he investigated and described; His literary style; Citations from his written works.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including theoretical writings, exhibition on robots and digital content.

The article focuses on the banners showing the Earth's geology along with it's connection with human being and the Earth's history.

The article focuses on the tradition Chinese Gongshi and Japanese suiseki being associated with viewing stones which is important in the field of art.