What I take from Marcia Bjornerud is timefulness, i.e., the sense that the Earth is made of time. It's a geologist's antidote to treating the planet as a backdrop for human history.
How the word moved
I read her in March 2026 for the time essays, and her geology became one of the grounds of my planetary durée.
In my words
"As Bjornerud points out, the Earth is not an empty, static stage; it is palpably made of time."
from The Planetary Syllabus. Time, Part III: Preliminary Thoughts on The Planetary Duree, 17 Mar 2026
Related
- Related Timefulness - her word, and I adopted it.
- Related Planetary Duree - her made-of-time Earth is what grounds the durée.
- Related Henri Bergson - I paired her with him - a philosopher of duration and a geologist of it.