The Persistence of the <i>Umwelt</i> in Planetarity

This contribution to “Viewpoints: Mapping the Planetary” offers a short essay that traces the elements of global thinking in planetary formulations. These particularly invoke the narrow anthropocentric perspectives that emerge from Jakob von Uexküll’s theoretical framings of the Umwelt. As such the short essay ranges from the early twentieth century to the present—specifically, in the form of LunaNet, an internet system designed for lunar occupation and habitation.