Hegel said philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, and Marx said the point is to change it. I read the two together. Once the object is the planet, I want to know what gets apprehended, who does the apprehending and by what means.
How the word moved
In January 2024 it was about new philosopher types for apprehending our age. In October and November 2025, in PAPE, I gave it a structure: the object is the Planet, the subject is the multitude, the means are protocols. In February 2026 I leaned on the German Begreifen, which means both understanding and seizing. Hence the question in my words below.
In my words
"What might a Hegelian seizure of the planet look like?"
from The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 3: The Planetary Steward, 26 Feb 2026
Related
- Inherited from Hegel - the dictum is his.
- Inherited from Marx - he turns apprehension into something more radical.
- Related Planetary Philosophy - philosophy as the apprehension of the Anthropocene.
- Related Philosophical Engineering - where apprehension becomes engineering.