Critical zones: the science and politics of landing on earth

Preface by the editors and acknowledgments / Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel Welcome address of the German Federal Cultural Foundation / Hortensia Völckers and Kirsten Haß Seven objections against landing on Earth I. Disorientation. When the global reveals the planetary: Bruno Latour interviews Dipesh Chakrabarty / Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty For the love of corals: life in the ruins of the museum / Sonia Levy The Anthropocene square meter / Jan Zalasiewicz The infinity of the Anthropocene: a (hi)story with a thousand names / Clémence Hallé and Anne-Sophie Milon Climate snap: at the Sign of the White Flower / Robert Boschman Landing on the terrestrial volcano / Karen Holmberg Around the pluriverse in eight objects: cosmograms for the critical zone / John Tresch The story so far / Richard Powers II. Disconnected. "Where is your freedom now?" How the moderns became ubiquitous / Pierre Charbonnier

Extractivism in the Critical Zone / Paul Jobin Uber Eats: how capitalism consumes the future / Timothy Mitchell Domesticating soil in Earth's Critical Zone / Steve Banwart Uranium City series on abandonment, two field trips / Robert Boschman What on Earth does climate have to do with law and liberty? Revisiting Montesquieus Theory of Climate / Gerard de Vries Landscape and hybrid sedimentology / Matthieu Duperrex Words for a tongue we are losing / Stefanie Rau Geognosy / Joseph Leo Koerner III. Critical Zones. The Critical Zone, a buffer zone, the human habitat / Jérôme Gaillardet Traveling through the Critical Zone / Alexandra Arènes The Strengbach Catchment Environmental Observatory: a needful key for a global investigation of the Critical Zone / Marie-Claire Pierret The Critical Zone paradigm - a personal view / Susan L. Brantley

Ansichten der Calzone: views of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory / Daniel D. Richter and Sharon A. Billings The Critical Zone revelation: I am in the skin / William E. Dietrich Exploring trees, soils, and microbes in the streets of Paris / Aleksandar Rankovic Beware of precursors: how not to trace the history of the Critical Zone / Simmon Schaffer Sara Aze as the sculptor of Critical Zones / Bruno Latour This planet which is not one: on the notion of Zone / Jeanne Etelain IV. Gaia. What exactly is the role of Gaia? / Timothy M. Lenton and Sébastien Dutreuil Distinguishing Gaia from the Earth system(s) / Timothy M. Lenton and Sébastien Dutreuil Gaia is alive / Sébastien Dutreuil Life in a bubble: the failure of Biosphere 2 as a total system / Bettina Korintenberg 1610 wood/cut: the Anthropocene, uprooted / Pauline Goul The mechanical discovery of ultrastability / Alexander W. Schindler and Anne Schreiber

Wetness is everywhere; why do we see water somewhere? / Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha The Star Trek universe: an idealized humanity in virtualized space / Ali Gharib The world as organism and machine: Jesuit geophysics in the early modern era / Siegfried Zielinski Recalling Humboldt's planet / Laura Dassow Walls V. Terrestrial. The Earth won't let itself be watched / Isabelle Stengers Tarabuco / Verónica Calvo Valenzuela Freedom through easements / Sarah Vanuxem Turning sovereignty upside down / Dorothea Condé and Pierre-Yves Condé The point of view of the mountain / Estelle Zhong Mengual Inhabiting the Phoncene with birds / Vinciane Despret Sensorium of the earthbound / Johanna Ziebritzki Museum of Natural Hisoty / Hanna Jurisch Born from Earth: a new myth for earthbounds / Emilie Hache VI. Divided. "We don't seem to live on the same planet" - a fictional planetarium / Bruno Latour

Embodied constellation: Reflection on the seven planets exercise / Mira Hirtz Life as exodus / Nikolaj Schultz Transhumanist eschatology / Daniel Irrgang On the difficulty of animating the Earth / Simon Schaffer Fabian in 1621, a divided soul / Yohji Suzuki Nature is not your household / Emanuele Coccia The promises of the new wetlands / Benedikte Zitouni New climate, new class struggles / Nikolaj Schultz Self-portrait in distress / Joseph Leo Koerner Glossolalia: tidings from terrestrial tongues / Bettina Korintenberg, Rachel Libeskind, Robert Preusse, Stefanie Rau VII. Depiction. Nature painting / Joseph Leo Koerner Sensing a moving planet / Jennifer Gabrys The grammar of action in the Critical Zone / Bronislaw Szerszynski Beyond individuals: Lynn Margulis and her holobiontic worlds / Lena Reitschuster Depicting holobiont / Olga Lukyanova How to visualize cells as overlapping trajectories of profiles / Michael Flower

The datafication of forests? From the Wood Wide Web to the Internet of trees / Jonathan Gray

Soil care network: caring for soil as building relations / Anna Krzywoszynska

Trajectories of modernization in Russia: artists recalibrating the Sensorium / Daria Mille

The skin of the world / Pierre Wat

VIII. Suspended. My Earth odyssey / Peter Weibel

Observatories for terrestrial politics: sensing the Critical Zones / Martin Guinard and Bettina Korintenberg

Neo Rauch's unknown masterpiece / Bruno Latour

Arts of inhabiting: ancient and new theaters of the world / Frédérique Aït-Touati

Carrier bags for Critical Zones / Donna Haraway

Authors' biographies

Works in the exhibition Critical Zones: observatories for Earthly politics

Index of names.