Existential politics is what you get when the elemental obsessions, air, water, food, heat and climate, replace taxes as the business of government. A politics in which oceans and glaciers get a vote will look nothing like the one we have. I said that in 2018 and I'm sticking with it.
How the word moved
I announced it in February 2018 in the ABCs essay, right alongside planetarity, and said it would force us to rework history, freedom, production and the category human itself. In May 2022 I repeated the claim and added heat to the list.
In my words
"We are entering an era of existential politics, where the current obsessions of government such as taxes are going to be replaced by the ..."
from Planetarity: the ABCs of our planetary future, 26 Feb 2018
Related
- Related Planetarity - I announced the two together.
- Related Geocracy - Geocracy is the setting where existential politics happens.