The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune

This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of f...

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Main Author: Pierre-Louis Patoine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2023-11-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/22124