The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 3: "The Planetary"

Sensing the Planet

Feb 23 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 2b: Blake and Gilman's "Children of a Modest Star"

Introductory Note

Feb 19 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 2a: Benjamin Bratton's "The Stack"

Introduction: A New Machine makes a New World

Feb 16 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 1

If you’re a knowledge worker like me, you have no idea of our earthly condition.

Feb 10 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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January 2026

A Planetarity Syllabus

writing for reading

Jan 19 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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The Monkey Goes East

I ended last year’s metabology finale with a hint that I might be doing something different in the new year.

Jan 5 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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December 2025

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #18. Ideology vs. Metabology

From Abstraction to Protocol

Dec 22, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics. Weekly Planet #17: The Strategy of Metabolic Development

Willy nilly, I have stumbled into a Glossary of Planetarity, with Metabolism providing a master key to reinterpreting some of the basic categories of…

Dec 15, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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Bhumics. Weekly Planet #16: The AI Bubble, Part 4. Intelligent Culture.

With AI, the financial bubble is easy to see: hyperscaler capex, a handful of firms carrying indices, and a narrative that capital has finally found a…

Dec 8, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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Bhumics. Weekly Planet #15: The AI Bubble, Part 3. AGI After Cognitive Capitalism

Artificial intelligence has captured today’s technological imagination.

Dec 1, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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November 2025

Bhumics. The Weekly Planet #14: The AI Bubble, Part 2. The Financial Bubble & Cognitive Capitalism

Cognitive Capitalism with AI Characteristics

Nov 24, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

Bhumics. The Weekly Planet #13: The AI Bubble, Part 1. Three AI Bubbles.

When Sam Altman admits we’re in an AI bubble while simultaneously promising to invest a trillion dollars in data centers, something stranger than usual…

Nov 17, 2025 • Rajesh Kasturirangan

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