Long-form writing from the GLOBAÏA team — essays, reflections, and field notes on planetary awareness.https://globaia.org/https://globaia.org/thoughts/we-have-pierced-the-dark/https://globaia.org/thoughts/we-have-pierced-the-dark/A revised edition of a 2007 essay on black holes — from Thales fallen down his well to the telescopes that finally photographed the dark — on the gravitational well as both the commandment and the commencement of nature.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/level/https://globaia.org/thoughts/level/Comparison is the oldest instrument of thought — to weigh the unknown against a known measure. GLOBAÏA's Sfera gathers Earth's water, air, life, and human-made mass into spheres at true scale, and somewhere around 2020 the two pans — the born world and the made world — went level.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/the-anthropocene-strait/https://globaia.org/thoughts/the-anthropocene-strait/Fourteen named rocks — Monomorphia, Pleonexia, Hyperbasis, and the others — that lie between us and a safe and just harbour. An allegorical wink at Homer, on the eve of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/the-sphere-of-stranger-minds/https://globaia.org/thoughts/the-sphere-of-stranger-minds/On the Xenoösphere — the planetary stratum where non-human intellect now takes shape — and the physical infrastructure that gives it body.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/the-temperature-the-body-reads/https://globaia.org/thoughts/the-temperature-the-body-reads/On wet-bulb globe temperature — the metric that decides whether a human can still work in the sun — and why a new, bias-corrected projection of it deserves to enter the public conversation.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/earth-is-the-training-distribution/https://globaia.org/thoughts/earth-is-the-training-distribution/On why the Earth system and artificial intelligence are no longer distinct emergencies — and on the constitutional constraints a coupled future will require.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/one-world-or-none/https://globaia.org/thoughts/one-world-or-none/On two photographs of Earth taken half a century apart, and what they ask of us.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschênes