The Impossibility of a Planet
“The Impossibility of a Planet”, by artists and researchers Jeremy Bolen and Jamie Allen, is an ongoing research and media project that seeks out dialogues with people who compose planetary images, thought, narratives, and models. These discussions develop such compositions and address the changes to practices and perspectives wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic’s interruption to global travel, connections, conferences, diplomacy, and labor. The project creates an archive and time capsule through a set of transcribed dialogues and intimate portraits of homes, environs, and locales.
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Introduction
Changes in global conditions create changes in the practices of global science. Do we have a means of tracing these interrelations?
Spatial, Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception
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Chapter 1: Through the Vast Machine
How does planetarity and its composition shift under conditions of planetary change?
Spatial, Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception
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Chapter 2: The Book of the Machine
What happens to our visions of the planetary when everyone has to stay at home, in their little boxes, speaking to other people in little boxes?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
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Chapter 3: The Committee of the Machine
At what point does the planetary scale outweigh its own usefulness as a tool for apprehension, discernment, and interpretation?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
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Chapter 4: Developments in the Machine
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?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
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Chapter 5: The Machine Did Stop
How can experiences of planetary ethics, politics and aesthetic be shared, explored and learned from, together?
Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception, Spatial
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Epilogue
What would it mean to let go of our planet, such that it might come back to us?
Spatial, Complexity, Imaginary, Knowledge production, Perception
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What on Earth is the Planetary?
In this essay, artists and researchers Jeremy Bolen and Jamie Allen ask: Where do planetarities come from, and where are they taking us?
Complexity, Cosmologies, Imaginary, Knowledge production
