Bhumics is my name for a planetary framework that takes the Earth, Bhumi, as its unit of analysis and is meant to replace politics and economics as the ruling disciplines. When I first stated it, I said it was also a mood, an aesthetic.
How the word moved
In January 2025 it was a framework superseding politics and economics, as much an aesthetic and a mood as an ideology, with Affectology and Monsterology as majors and Silicarbon as a minor. Yes, I gave my own framework majors and minors, like a university that doesn't exist yet. In March 2025 it became a practice with two halves: Positive Bhumics, which describes the way Machiavelli did, and Speculative Bhumics, which imagines. Both are read and written from the Pauper's position.
By March 2026 I was using it more loosely, as a way of embracing planetarity in a new imagination of our collective future, tied to timefulness and to keeping the metabolic order going.
In my words
"Bhumics is an aesthetic, a mood as much as an ideology."
from Bhumics, Part 1, 21 Jan 2025
"Bhumics is Gaia gone adulting."
from Bhumics Week 7: The RBIO Part 4, 3 Mar 2025
"Prediction: Economics will give way to Bhumics."
from Bhumics: The Pauper #9, 6 Aug 2025
Related
- Depends on Interregnum - Bhumics is my response to the Gramscian time of monsters.
- Depends on Planet - its first principle is that the Planet, not the Globe, gives order.
- Inherited from Machiavelli - I took positive analysis from The Prince.
- Related Positive Bhumics - the Machiavellian half.
- Related Speculative Bhumics - the utopian half.
- Related Metabology - by late 2025 it had become the working analytic of Bhumics.
- Related Silicarbon - the minor I named in the opening essay.
- Related Planetarity - Bhumics is how I reckon with the condition of planetarity.
Still open
The theory isn't complete, and I've said so. I still don't know whether Bhumics is a discipline, a mood or a politics, and my answer has shifted across 2025 and 2026.