Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

BIOSPHERE

The term biosphere first came to the public sight was by geologist Eduard Suess in 1875, defined as "the place on Earth’s surface where life dwells".1At that time, it was a collection of geological concepts on the basis of the Earth sciences by Charles Dawin and Mattew F Maury. Then the ecological context comes from the 1920s by Vladimir Vernadsky preceding the 1935 introduction of the term "ecosystem" by Sir Arthur Tansley. It often referred as a closed system object afterwards. Like some examples of closed system biosphere include BIOS-3 in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia (1965-1984; it continues in limited form into the present day); Biosphere 2 near Tuscon, Arizona (1987 to the present, with active missions in 1991-1993 and 1994); and the Eden Project in Cornwall, England (2000 to the present).2The aim of the researches on various biospheres were to establish a shelter in which tests the feasibility and possibility of surviving in co-evolution with thousands of other species. But the result has become an engine of productive catastrophes, simulating global warming and assembling a fantastic menagerie of displaced specimens. With the background of Space competition and nuclear research, biosphere was seen as an overgrown space capsule, and the question about carrying capacity.3Then it developed different meanings varied from author and chronological order. What ecological though must do, then, is unground the human by forcing it back onto the ground, which is to say, standing on a gigantic object called Earth inside a gigantic entity called biosphere.4

Citations
1Seuss, E.Die Entstehung Der Alpen [The Origin of the Alps]. Vienna: W. Braunmuller.
2Eva Diaz, "Dome Culture in the Twelve-first Century", DGrey Room 42 (MIT Press: Winter 2011), 80-105.
3Janette Kim and Erik Carver, "Crisis in Crisis: Biosphere 2’s Contested Ecologies," Volume,Bootleg Edition Urban China (February 2009).
4Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects:Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).