Long-form writing from the GLOBAÏA team — essays, reflections, and field notes on planetary awareness.https://globaia.org/https://globaia.org/thoughts/a-house-for-the-planet/https://globaia.org/thoughts/a-house-for-the-planet/Imagine a place in your city where anyone could walk in and meet the Earth system, and one another. On the Centre for Planetary Stewardship, one of the organs a society may have to grow to live in the Anthropocene.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/the-cattle-of-the-sun/https://globaia.org/thoughts/the-cattle-of-the-sun/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, the Sea Peoples, and a herd of stored sunlight that neither breeds nor dies. Homer wrote down what that costs, and it is not the voyage.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/the-atasthalocene/https://globaia.org/thoughts/the-atasthalocene/Nine lines into the Odyssey, Homer names the cause of shipwreck: atasthalíai — reckless follies, committed after fair warning. As Nolan's film opens worldwide, a closer look at the word our epoch may deserve, and the exit it names.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/the-mythurgic-age/https://globaia.org/thoughts/the-mythurgic-age/On mythurgy — story as labour: fictions that fund, name, and build themselves into the world — and why our age runs on science-fictional myths that organize behaviour long before they are ever true.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://globaia.org/thoughts/land-held-in-trust/https://globaia.org/thoughts/land-held-in-trust/Aotearoa New Zealand set aside a third of itself as public conservation land. A 2026 bill would make most of it eligible for sale, exchange, or development — at the exact moment the science asks us to protect more, not less.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTFélix Pharand-Deschêneshttps://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