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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program |
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| dc.contributor |
Helmreich, Stefan |
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| dc.contributor |
Helmreich, Stefan |
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| dc.creator |
Helmreich, Stefan |
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| dc.date |
2012-08-16T19:49:11Z |
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2012-08-16T19:49:11Z |
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| dc.date |
2011-01 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2023-03-01T18:08:33Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2023-03-01T18:08:33Z |
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| dc.identifier |
0037-783X |
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| dc.identifier |
1944-768X |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72176 |
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| dc.identifier |
Helmreich, Stefan. "From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures." Social Research 78.4 (Winter 2011): 1211-1242. |
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0859-5881 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278907 |
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| dc.description |
What sort of image does the planet Earth possess at the opening of the 21st century? If in the 1960s, the Whole Earth, the planet as seen from space, became a cold war, proto-environmentalist icon for a fragile ocean planet, in the 2010s, Google Earth, the globe encountered as a manipulable virtual object on our computer screens, has become an index for multiple and socially various interpretations and interventions; its thicket of satellite images, text legends, and street level photographs can all be tagged, commented upon, modified. In this essay, I examine a kindred image-object, Google Ocean, asking what sort of representation of the planetary sea is in the making in our digital days. Stirring up the century-old classification of signs by semiotician Charles Sanders Peirce, I argue that Google Ocean is a mottled mash of icons, indexes, and symbols of the marine and maritime world as well as a simultaneously dystopian and utopian (that is to say, heterotopian) diagram of the sea - though one that floats in a media ecology that tends to occlude its infrastructural history and conditions of possibility. |
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application/pdf |
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en_US |
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Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New School University |
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http://socialresearch.metapress.com/link.asp?id=98628557448jtj77 |
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| dc.relation |
Social Research |
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| dc.rights |
Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. |
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| dc.source |
Helmreich via Michelle Baildon |
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| dc.title |
From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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| dc.type |
http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle |
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