Spivak gave me two things I keep using. One is the planet as an alterity we only have "on loan". The other is her call to imagine ourselves as planetary subjects instead of global agents.
How the word moved
I first leaned on her in PAPE 3 in November 2025, when planetarity needed a subject and she had one ready. By April 2026 she was the source of what I call planetary alterity, the planet as the thing that's other to us and was never ours to begin with.
In my words
"It is to heed Spivak’s call to “imagine ourselves as planetary subjects rather than global agents,”"
from Bhumics: PAPE, Part 3, 6 Nov 2025
Related
- Related Planetary Alterity - her alterity is the root of mine.
- Related Planetarity - "planetary subjects" is her phrase for what planetarity asks of us.
- Related Globe - letting the planet overwrite the globe is her line, and I took it.
- Related Sinosophy - even the Monkey knows the planet is on loan.