Monday, 27 October 2025

Speculative Cosmologies: Imagining and Inhabiting Possible Worlds: 4 Cosmogenic Imagination — Planetary and Interplanetary Worlds

Emergent ethics and symbolic ecology prepare us to extend relational imagination beyond local or terrestrial scales. Cosmogenic imagination explores how humans, symbols, and technologies co-compose relational fields across planetary and interplanetary domains, shaping possibilities on scales that were previously speculative or abstract.

Key dynamics of cosmogenic imagination:

  1. Multi-scale resonance: Actions, narratives, and technologies interact across spatial and temporal scales, propagating relational effects through ecological, social, and planetary systems.

  2. Ethical and symbolic alignment: Imagination is guided by principles that preserve openness, coherence, and systemic integrity, ensuring that planetary and extra-planetary interventions remain generative.

  3. Participatory cosmogenesis: Human, symbolic, and technological actors co-author relational fields, contributing to the ongoing evolution of worlds beyond Earth.

Examples:

  • Space exploration and settlement designed with ethical, symbolic, and relational awareness, integrating human and ecological systems.

  • Planetary-scale simulations and networks that model potential futures and enable participatory engagement across communities.

  • Speculative artistic and scientific projects imagining interplanetary societies, ecological stewardship, and symbolic infrastructures.

Cosmogenic imagination reframes human agency as multi-scale, relational, and ethically co-compositional. Our capacity to imagine and act is no longer constrained to Earth; it becomes a medium for planetary and cosmic resonance, aligning imagination, ethics, and practice across the living field of possibility.

Key move: from human-centered imagination to planetary and interplanetary co-composition; from local foresight to multi-scale relational tuning; from speculation as fantasy to imaginative participation in living cosmologies.

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