Geocracy is the rule of the Earth. I wanted a word that takes politics back to first principles, i.e., human control over flows of energy and information, and the fights over value and violence that come with that control.
How the word moved
I proposed it in December 2018 as a replacement for "Anthropocene". In October 2019 it was the first task of presearch, which is a fancy way of saying we've got to figure out how to run the earth. By July 2020 I was calling it the correct setting for existential politics. Then I let it go.
In my words
"I believe that term is Geocracy."
from Geocracy, 11 Dec 2018
"The future of geocracy. Power over other humans, power over other creatures and power over the earth."
from Geocracy, 11 Dec 2018
Related
- Contradicts Anthropocene - I proposed geocracy against that word.
- Related Presearch - how to run the earth was presearch's first task.
- Related Existential Politics - geocracy is where existential politics happens.
- Related Cosiety - cosiety is the larger entity, and geocracy is its setting.
Still open
I stopped using the word after 2020. Its first principles came back in 2025 as metabolics and metabolic sovereignty, minus the name - which tells you how attached I am to my own coinages.