Planetarity

The Daily Planet #9

There's little more cruel than how we treat chickens. About seventy five billion (!!) of them are slaughtered every year, almost every single one of them living short, miserable lives. They are bred to burst out of their biological confines, suffering from torn ligaments and broken bones as a result. Not that the lack of mobility

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The Daily Planet #8: Edwards and Hecht on the Technosphere

Yesterday's Daily Planet was on Peter Haff's idea of the Technosphere. Today's link is a discussion of Peter Haff's ideas between Gabrielle Hecht and Paul Edwards.

Paul has written evocatively about the development of Computing Systems and the Earth Systems Sciences in the (first) Cold War

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The Daily Planet #7: The Technosphere

It's come to my notice that we are living in a new age, the human age, the Anthropocene. I am sure it strokes our ego to be the measure of all things, but we wouldn't be in the position without all the technologies we have brought into the world.

There wouldn't be 7 billion of us without the marvels of medicine

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The Daily Planet #6: Network Wars

The planetary is not just about trees and coral reefs, but also about chips and rare earth minerals and economic sanctions. Social scientists - and physicists in their own way - keep reminding us that all information is material: a data center is a physical entity after all.

We can expand that claim to say: all

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Daily Planet #5: Tooze on China's Energy transition

I want to understand how China is (if?) becoming an Ecological Civilization and what the rest of us can learn from that transformation. BTW, this doesn't have to give us warm fuzzy feelings because:

1. It's totally possible to combine authoritarian politics with ecology, but of course, that's better

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Daily Planet #4

I am partial to veggie burgers. In fact, I had a couple yesterday night for dinner. These days my go to brand is Boca, which has been around for a while, but the two big kids on the block are Beyond and Impossible. And as you might know, they are both struggling to maintain their valuations and the massive amounts of investment.

I

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The Daily Planet #3

This third edition of the Daily Planet might feel very unplanetary, but to the extent that China will be a/the Climate Leviathan of the future, Wang Huning's thinking about political ecology will determine our planetary condition.

Wang is the most powerful intellectual in the world and - if it comes to pass - the architect of a

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