{"product_id":"9781350214880-babylonian-planet-the","title":"The Babylonian Planet","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCulture and Encounter Under Globalization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is astro-culture? In \u003ci\u003eThe Babylonian Planet\u003c\/i\u003e it is unfolded as an aesthetic, an idea, a   field of study, a position, and a practice. It helps to engineer the shift   from a world view that is segregated to one that is integrated – from global   to planetary; from distance to intimacy and where closeness and cosmic   distance live side-by-side.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this tour de force, Sonja Neef takes her cue from   Edouard Glissant’s vision of multilingualism and reignites the myth of the   Tower of Babel to anticipate new forms of cultural encounter. For her, Babel   is an organic construction site at which she fuses theoretical analysis and   case studies of artists, writers and thinkers like William Kentridge, Orhan   Pamuk and Immanuel Kant. Her skilful interrogations then allow her to paint a   portrait of art and culture that abolishes the horizon as a barrier to vision   and reclaims it as a place of contact and relation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  By combining the Babylonian concept of the encounter and the planetary concept of the whole-earth, Neef creates a space – an astro-culture – in which she can examine topics as varied as language, translation, media, modernity, migration and the moon. In doing so, she instigates a renewed cultural understanding receptive to the kinder forms of cultural encounter and globalisation she hopes will come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41084099821665,"sku":"9781350214880","price":29.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35042231.jpg?v=1753768106","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350214880-babylonian-planet-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}