From climatic chaos to mass extinction, from ‘geoengineering’ to unprecedented urbanisation, world politics has, in recent decades, become inescapably planetary. Recent discussions concerning ‘Planet Politics’ are, therefore, timely. However, the debate, to date, has been limited by a number of conceptual and political problems. In particular, an apparent disinclination to address serious differences as regards the authority of natural scientific knowledge with respect to collective ontologies raises the question of what is truly political in planetary politics. Drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s concept of ‘planetarity’ and Isabelle Stengers’ ‘cosmopolitics’, this intervention consists of a diagnosis, a method and an alternative. The diagnosis is that this debate has yet to constitute a workable starting point for the very thought processes, and political processes, that those involved demand. The method is simultaneously ‘forensic’ and ‘diplomatic’ – that is, it focuses on bringing undisclosed and semi-disclosed conflicts into the open while, furthermore, ‘thinking through the middle’ of established polemical positions, enabling new possibilities. The alternative, then, proposes to distinguish a cosmopolitan agenda of global connectedness from a cosmopolitical process of situated coordination. Finally, it is argued that adding ‘planetary’ to our politics aptly, if counterintuitively, encapsulates the condition of ‘political multiplicity’. However, rather than lending weight to disciplinary consolidation, this encapsulation should serve to forge connections with problems of multiplicity of all sorts. That is, the purpose of planetary politics, as conceived herein, would be that of inventing speculative practices that maintain the possibility of unlikely alliances between disparate powers, and not only those of the nation state.

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在通往地球政治的道路上：从学科消亡到世界政治协调

从气候混乱到大规模灭绝，从“地球工程”到史无前例的城市化，近几十年来，世界政治不可避免地变成了行星。因此，最近关于“行星政治”的讨论是及时的。然而，迄今为止，辩论受到一些概念和政治问题的限制。特别是，在自然科学知识相对于集体本体论的权威方面明显不愿意解决严重分歧，这引发了一个问题，即行星政治中什么是真正的政治。借鉴 Gayatri Spivak 的“行星”概念和 Isabelle Stengers 的“世界政治”，这种干预包括诊断、方法和替代方案。诊断结果是，这场辩论尚未构成思想过程的可行起点，和政治进程，这是相关人员所要求的。该方法同时是“法医”和“外交”——也就是说，它侧重于将未公开和半公开的冲突公开，此外，“从中间思考”既定的论战立场，实现新的可能性。那么，替代方案建议将全球连通性的世界主义议程与情境协调的世界政治进程区分开来。最后，有人认为将“行星”添加到我们的政治中是恰当的，即使违反直觉，也包含了“政治多样性”的条件。然而，与其强调学科整合，不如说这种封装应该有助于与各种多样性问题建立联系。也就是说，行星政治的目的，正如这里所设想的，