// More-than-Planet Atlas

// How to think about the planet as a cultural object?

// Published by @waag.bsky.social, edited by Miha Turšič, Zoénie Deng, Bonnie van Vugt, w/ contributors Solveig Suess, @chrisjulien.bsky.social, Adonis Leboho, Klára Peloušková & me.

www.more-than-planet.eu/atlas

NEW PREPRINT

My first dive into outer space ethics:

(1) Comparing conservationist & constructivist paradigms in planetary protection (e.g.
@cospar-ppp.bsky.social policy papers)

(2) Grounding earth-space governance in recent findings about evolution of planets & life

arxiv.org/abs/2508.20145

We had a wonderful week at the Biennale with Antikythera (the Berggruen Institute), presenting our work at the Next Earth exhibition and celebrating the launch of the journal: journal.antikythera.org
Stay tuned for our piece on Latent Spaces in issue #2! @metahaven.bsky.social @begus.bsky.social

An unforgettable week in Venice: Opening Antikythera x MIT Architecture The Next Earth show at Palazzo Diedo @berggruen.org, together with dozens of artists, designers and writers in our global network. Very proud to be part of this team and to contribute to the new @mitpress.bsky.social journal.

Heading to Venice to launch our new Antikythera x @mitpress.bsky.social journal, incl. an exhibition The Next Earth at Palazzo Diedo + a day of debates on May 10th w/ Ben Bratton, @ninabegus.bsky.social, @begus.bsky.social, Tom Moynihan, Winnie Street, Stanley Chan, @metahaven.bsky.social et al.

New paper with @likavcan.bsky.social

"The Planetary and Its Uses. Grounding Political Economy in an Astrobiological Perspective"

The project combined 2 very different disciplines to find 1 path through the anthropocene towards a mature technosphere.

osf.io/preprints/so...

After Silicon, Part 2: Speculations is alive! It features four speculations about the future of biocomputing, DNA storage, organoid intelligence and hybrid organic systems produced in collaboration with Chris Burman from Heat Island/UCL Bartlett. Visit:
aftersilicon.com

Are you ready for the future in which you may spill your computer on the floor?

After Silicon is a freely available online report by researcher Christopher Burman and philosopher Lukáš Likavčan, exploring the new era of biocomputing, DNA storage & hybrid organic systems.

www.aftersilicon.com

It was so amazing to represent the Antikythera think-tank on stage at #PlanetarySummit in Venice, and to speak w/ Tom Moynihan & Ben Bratton about technosphere-biosphere convergence, Fermi paradox, and the cosmic perspective. Many thanks to Berggruen Institute for curating this landmark event🪐

I look forward to speaking at the Planetary Summit Nov 23-24 in Venice, Italy. Join the conversation or follow along to learn about new pathways to address Planetary-scale challenges via Berggruen Institute and #PlanetarySummit.

Learn More: berggruen.org/projects/pla...

>> New preprint out <<

The Grass of the Universe

The paper introduces Fermi paradox as speculative tool, advocating that technosphere is transitory layer that shall fold back into biosphere, and that habitability+genesity are vectors of viable human inhabitation of Earth.

arxiv.org/abs/2411.08057

ANOTHER EARTH

This paper was long time in the making. It articulates philosophical implications of astronomical concept of the planet: emphasis on cosmic ecology, plus understanding of planet as structure of phase gradients / historical natural kind.

DM for pdf

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to present my new research on elemental media at Duke Kunshan University in June

sites.duke.edu/dkuhumanitie...

For the first time, astronomers have found a water-rich atmosphere on an exoplanet that is only about twice the size of Earth. Is it a hot world dominated by water, or a mini-Neptune with traces of water in an atmosphere rich in hydrogen? 🔭
www.mpia.de/news/science...