The precarity of people and work, livelihoods and health is made salient in periods of global unrest. Markets falter, smooth flows enabled by supply chains and food systems stutter and fail, and people take long hard looks at the critical support systems they may once have thought unshakable. The ways in which people who engage in the knowledge work of planetary composition view and undertake their labors of love, institutional responsibilities, and economic sustainment no doubt change continuously, but the change that has taken place in the past half-decade is undoubtedly remarkable. How do the ways in which planetary thinkers do their work affect how the “planetary” emerges as a concept, and the planet itself (re)emerges as an entity?