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Jan 01, 2023

Chapter 5: The Machine Did Stop

Planetarity is orientated, if not constituted, by the ways in which concepts such as “local” and “global” are related, held in tension, and brought together. These relationalities—plays of distance and proximity—constitute understandings and abstractions of global, planetary, and earthly experience. For each set of relations there can be corresponding ethical imperatives and repercussions, emergent political and epistemic commitments, and aesthetic applications and assumptions. How can experiences of planetary ethics, politics and aesthetic be shared, explored and learned from, together?