The Planetary Sensorium is the distributed cognitive apparatus of networks, satellites, sensors and models that makes hyperobjects perceivable. Without it there's no climate to see. In other words, computation is a condition of possibility of Planetarity.
How the word moved
I introduced it in Nov 2025, in the fourth PAPE essay, as the technosphere's nervous system. It's ambivalent, because the very same tools that let us sense the planet also optimize extraction. The eye of Sauron and the Palantír come from the same workshop.
In my words
"In other words, computation is a condition of possibility of Planetarity"
from Bhumics: PAPE, Part 4, 13 Nov 2025
Related
- Related Technosphere - the sensorium is the technosphere's nervous system.
- Related Hyperobject - hyperobjects are what it makes perceivable.
- Related Cyborg Science - observation is already intervention.