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Slow Causality: The Function of Narrative in an Age of Climate Change
Both theorists and activists confront the challenge of representing the often untraceable causalities of climate change and, specifically, of linking action to effect over long periods. Nineteenth-century authors and scientists, faced with their own long temporal spans, devised strategies for representing the slow causalities of geological and generational processes, for which empirical evidence was often scarce. For writers like Charles Lyell, Charles Babbage, Samuel Smiles, and George Eliot, slowness served not only as a description but also as a narrative strategy, a means of inviting belief in, and consent to, the act of tracing causes to their distant ends. They use narrative to reimagine the relationship between evidence and causality, with the potential to influence the way we think about climate change debates today.
Journal Article
\Inhabitants of the Same World\: The Colonial History of Geological Time
At the 35th International Geological Congress, held in South Africa in late 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) presented its eagerly awaited evidence that the earth has now entered the Anthropocene Epoch, a subdivision of the longer quaternary period of the planet's history. The group argued that human beings now constitute a force of nature on a geological scale, fundamentally restructuring earth systems to the extent that that, \"even if all anthropogenic forcings\" of the climate \"ceased tomorrow,\" \"the defining characteristics of the present stratigraphic signal\" would \"continue to be detectable in geological strata\" It is \"not the fact that humans are currently the main driving force of change,\" that is the most significant factor in the naming of this new geological epoch, the group continued, but \"the scale, nature, pace and novelty of human impact\" In other words, it is the grandeur of the change that matters: \"the stratigraphic record has been set on an irreversible trajectory\" the authors write, marked by \"important events on the planetary scale.\"
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Varieties of Geological Experience: Religion, Body, and Spirit in Tennyson's \In Memoriam\ and Lyell's \Principles of Geology\
Tomko extends Herbert Tucker's analysis of Tennyson's poem In Memoriam by applying a culturally aware formalism not only to Tennyson's poem but also to another nuanced cultural artifact, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology. These texts--the scientific laureate's lay and the geologist's poetic apology--warrant similar formal consideration because they participate in the same cultural sphere, intervening in questions of religion, metaphysics, science, identity, and nationalism.
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Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age
James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age ((Univ. of Chicago Pr., 2014) vii-xiii+306 $30 In Visions of Science, James Secord draws together in an elegant and convincing argument a number of non-fiction books published between 1828 and 1834, a period that is often neglected in the shift from Romanticism to the Victorian age. Yet the 1820s and 30s were felt to be dangerous times by many of those living through them: the rise in workers' militancy and distress, the rapid advance of machines substituting for human hands, the debates concerning education and its potential to undermine or to improve society as at present constituted - all these discussions were felt along the pulses in daily life. The seven books that Professor Secord brings together into something like a new genre are quite various, but each of them reflects on the present state of the sciences, their interrelations, and their power to open a fuller understanding of the works of the Creator.
Book Review
POZZUOLI'S PILLARS REVISITED
Geologist Charles Lyell, in his 'Principles of Geology,' changed many of the earth sciences with his observations concering the pillars of Pozzuoli. These Roman pillars, discovered in Italy, exhibited various sea-level changes that led to the belief that the pillars has once been submerged in sea water and had later resurfaced. A visit to the pillars is described.
Magazine Article
Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom.(includes from the works of Lyell, Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder, and Robert Frost)
Pliny the Elder observed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, where he died of asphyxiation. Pliny the Younger later wrote of the event, and emphasized the darkness the volanic clouds produced. Charles Lyell later visited the area, also wrote of the event, and chose as the cover of his 'Principles of Geology' three Roman columns of the Temple of Serapis.
Magazine Article