Planetary Durée is Bergson's durée stretched out to geological time. The Earth is a living, accumulating duration, and human consciousness is one fast-moving, highly conscious clot in it.
How the word moved
In Oct 2025 I promised it in PAPE as Bergson adapted for the very longue durée. I finally worked it out in Mar 2026, across Parts III and IV of the Time section of the Syllabus, against the spatial fallacy and against the Globe's clock time. Plato's cave, but planetary - and yes, I'm still in it.
In my words
"We are a fast-moving, highly conscious coagulation of the planet’s own duration."
from The Planetary Syllabus. Time, Part III: Preliminary Thoughts on The Planetary Duree, 17 Mar 2026
"Still stuck in Plato’s Planetary Cave for sure."
from The Planetary Syllabus. Time, Part III: Preliminary Thoughts on The Planetary Duree, 17 Mar 2026
Related
- Inherited from Henri Bergson - what I take from Bergson is durée itself.
- Inherited from Marcia Bjornerud - what I take from Bjornerud is timefulness, a geologist's feel for deep time.
- Contradicts Globe - the Globe is planetary time turned into space.
- Related Manuel DeLanda - DeLanda grounds duration in matter, though I doubt his layer-cake.
- Related Book of the World - the planetary durée needs a book of its own.
- Related Defense of Duree - the AI essays defend human durée.
- Related Expanse - the expanse, but in time.
Still open
These are speculative thoughts by their very nature. I don't know yet how durée becomes an engineering practice.