https://www.whereistheclimate.earth/planetary-blog daily 0.75 2026-11-01 https://www.whereistheclimate.earth/planetary-blog/ourplanetarycondition monthly 0.5 2026-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/94ce5892-83b1-4a7c-9dcb-35c043904402/zoltan-tasi-YIKYquFdVIo-unsplash.jpg Planetary Blog - Our Planetary Condition: A Book Review and Author Conversation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/dc5ce0e9-9c15-4c92-ac45-1401baa9a165/diane-picchiottino-dW0gfo__uU8-unsplash.jpg Planetary Blog - Our Planetary Condition: A Book Review and Author Conversation - They take me back in time to the Leonids meteor storm of the night of 12/13 November in 1833 during which up to 150,000 meteoroids burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere (per hour!); to the ocean floor off the Sydney shoreline where an unlikely colony of octopus constructs ‘Octlantis’; to honeybees who may find inspiration (or not) in the waggle dance of robot bees; to the ‘wood wide web’ keeping forests alive; and right back to childhood memories of cycling along the river which figures in the Lahn avatar – an installation involving ‘local materials, flowing water … and an integrated screen that briefly mirrors each speaker before displaying the avatar’s responses’ (149). These chapters are a lesson in methodology as much as in theory. They combine existing research from across disciplines with descriptions of on-the-ground experimental and experiential interventions to make abstract ideas relevant, tangible, and meaningful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/100a1601-ae36-4c03-b7df-2ea60f1e92af/forest-s-3pz8hBJrnNA-unsplash.jpg Planetary Blog - Our Planetary Condition: A Book Review and Author Conversation - Laura: The phrase ‘our planetary condition’, you write, describes the ‘dynamic state of the Earth’ which is ‘shaped by the interplay among living, non-living, and technological agencies’ (49). When reading, I found myself asking, where do you locate power in all of this? How does the ‘we’ articulate the planetary condition as ‘theirs’ / ‘ours’? Concretely, how might the assemblies you describe deal with questions of power? And how might the formation and design of these assemblies already operate as power? Frederic and Clemens: We remain rather implicit about power, and deliberately so. Instead of applying existing, anthropocentric notions of power to our planetary condition, we ask, more humbly, what this condition reveals about power and how assemblies could recognize it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/2505f8c3-f7e2-4d70-9b1d-07e7c00723ce/imaginearth-la-terre-en-images-TkX2kzLqJTg-unsplash.jpg Planetary Blog - Our Planetary Condition: A Book Review and Author Conversation - Laura: Final question - what might present itself as an opening for further pursuing the questions which the book opens, institutionally, methodologically, epistemically? And where do you see yourself in this process? Frederic and Clemens: We want the book to shift the question: no longer whether the planet is involved in politics, but what kinds of politics become possible once we take its involvement seriously. Planetary politics is not a niche; it is politics writ large. Institutionally, we propose the Planetarities as an ‘undisciplined’ research horizon where the planetary humanities and social sciences meet the planetary sciences and situated practitioners, from Indigenous stewards to astronauts. Methodologically, ‘planet as method’ is becoming a teachable toolkit. To that end, we are co-editing a Handbook of Planetary Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences with Oxford University Press together. Epistemically, categories such as freedom, legitimacy, and responsibility need rethinking. https://www.whereistheclimate.earth/planetary-blog/the-politics-of-seeing-everywhere-from-nowhere monthly 0.5 2026-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/eb1c9fd2-b7e7-4f23-96c5-a2b4eb7e18b4/Picture+1.jpg Planetary Blog - The Politics of Seeing everything from Nowhere - Apollo 8, ‘Earthrise’, Credit: NASA The fascination with the view of the Earth from space, however, is not a dusty thing of the 20th century. Think, for instance, of Orbital, the 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel by British writer Samantha Harvey. Set aboard the International Space Station, the story details the crew’s mundane routines, memories, and human struggles as they loop around the Earth and marvel at its beauty. Or think of the spectacular images recently taken by the Artemis II mission, providing new updated shots of planet Earth from space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/15836e19-e2f9-4a6d-8d34-2cab3ecd6bf9/peter-luo-pMqlzXuevkI-unsplash.jpg Planetary Blog - The Politics of Seeing everything from Nowhere Earth observation infrastructure at Mauna Kea, Hawai’i, Credit: Peter Luo https://www.whereistheclimate.earth/planetary-blog/when-law-runs-up-against-planetary-and-more-than-human-temporalities monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/d499ed4a-cff5-4573-9336-25dab44b2a71/the-new-york-public-library-rmXjlTBx9xY-unsplash.jpg Planetary Blog - When Law Runs up Against Planetary & More-than-Human Temporalities - I yan: This actually speaks nicely to several points discussed with those who participated in the Research Dialogue. Our conversation flowed through alternative conceptions of time and how they do, and do not, find traction in applied legal and policy discourse. We also spoke about how climate change might be perceived differently across generations. The significance of this for education was noted, where the deep time of climate change and ecological functioning sits in tension with the urgency that confronts us all. We seemed to agree that, through research and education, thinking about alternative conceptions of time could be a useful conversation to counter apathetic climate nihilism. Thinkers like you are doing such important work in this regard, Laura. I wonder if you have any parting wisdom regarding agency, climate change, plankton, and penguins. https://www.whereistheclimate.earth/planetary-blog/blog-post-one monthly 0.5 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/64558be9-2b7f-4d4b-8f08-3e3425548e6b/Screenshot+2025-09-27+at+15.39.14.png Planetary Blog - ‘Orbital’: 16 Loops Around the Planet - Orbital is a novel by British writer Samantha Harvey. It was first published in 2023. Set aboard the International Space Station, the book accompanies six astronauts around the Earth in 16 loops, detailing their routines, memories, losses, and quiet pondering. I read the novel as unfolding in in three interrelated registers: the mundane: astronauts check data, feed mice, complete experiments, exercise, sleep, eat, clean. the human: astronauts have desires and regrets, they hold friendships, remember family, grieve, and crack jokes together. the planetary: astronauts ponder questions of perspective, position, and responsibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d57f02db80935a8bea8b3e/550597ae-1ecf-4a1c-81dd-f2639cccbb16/Screenshot+2025-09-27+at+13.21.41.png Planetary Blog - ‘Orbital’: 16 Loops Around the Planet - At the time, Shaun had barely cared. But in orbit, he finds himself drawn back to the lesson, prompted by a postcard his wife (then his teenage classmate) gave him, annotated with her notes. He has that postcard in his crew quarters. This morning when he wakes up he finds himself starting at it, at all of the possibilities of subject and perspective that his wife wrote out on its reverse. 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