Planetary Thinking

I want to engage with people from different regions to think about this from their perspective and from their locality, but not nationality. When I say a post-European thinking, I’m not saying anything against Europe because I believe that Europe also needs to go beyond this European thinking. A new philosophy for Europe, even within Europe itself, cannot simply import Taoism or Buddhism, but must have the courage to confront incompatibility and see how individuation can take place. This is the first sense of planetary thinking, a thinking based on diversities, namely biodiversity, noodiversity (i.e. diversity of thought), and technodiversity.

To think about the planetary, especially when we talk about that which we found in Hegel or in Carl Schmitt, it is still very much based on the nation state and the necessity of enemies. I think it necessary to think with theorists like Schmitt, but also to think beyond such political realism. If we follow realpolitik to the end, we are going to end up with catastrophes because political realism means relentless military and economic competition.