The planet is a mode of alterity we inhabit only on loan

Evidence

I propose the planet to overwrite the globe. Globalization is the imposition of the same system of exchange everywhere.… The globe is on our computers. No one lives there. It allows us to think we can aim to control it. The planet is in the species of alterity, belonging to another system; and yet we inhabit it, on loan.… If we imagine ourselves as planetary subjects rather than global agents[,] … alterity remains underived from us; it is not our dialectical negation, it contains us as much as it flings us away. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 395

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spivak’s planetarity vs globality distinction, with the planet as loaned alterity.
• XREF: Connects to postcolonial theory archives and planetary humanism debate (Gilroy, Miyoshi). — connects to: Planetarity offers a critical stance beyond national and global perspectives — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 393; Genuine rationality would treat the earth as a sustaining other rather than a resource — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 741; Paracelsian cosmology placed humans within nature, not above it — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 511 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Planetarity offers a critical stance beyond national and global perspectives — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 393; Genuine rationality would treat the earth as a sustaining other rather than a resource — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 741; Paracelsian cosmology placed humans within nature, not above it — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 511 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Paracelsian cosmology placed humans within nature, not above it #complicates (0.72) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 511