ABSTRACT

In this letter, addressed to the collective of geographers, the EARTH is begging them to quickly rise up to the unprecedented and urgent challenges that ‘the EARTH’ and ‘them humans’ face in this extraordinary grave planetary moment of the climate emergency. With the help of a human ghostwriter, the EARTH accuses geographers for having committed a series of mis-translations, notably by having reduced the EARTH to an extensive ‘earth surface’ in wait for other agencies like ‘Nature’, ‘Space’, ‘the Social’, ‘Culture’, ‘the Environment’, to provide the action. According to the EARTH, this is one of the worst cartographic crimes ever committed in the discipline of geography. Consequently, the EARTH asks geographers to fundamentally reconsider an un-earthly and de-geographized onto-epistemological direction that their discipline generally has taken. Given that the Earth now has evolved into a new kind of geo-being in the Anthropocene, and because the planetary climate emergency means that Terra Oikos is on fire, geographers need to update and revitalize their obsolete geo-ontological conceptual apparatus They must try and save as much, and as fast, as they possibly can, including an EARTH who is in a dire condition and about to leave the Holocene.

摘要

在这封致地理学家集体的信中，地球恳求他们迅速挺身而出，应对“地球”和“他们人类”在气候紧急情况这一非同寻常的严重行星时刻所面临的前所未有的紧迫挑战。在人类代笔人的帮助下，地球指责地理学家犯下了一系列错误翻译，特别是将地球缩小为一个广泛的“地球表面”以等待其他机构，如“自然”、“太空”、“社会”、“文化”、“环境”，提供行动。根据地球，这是地理学科中犯下的最严重的制图犯罪之一。因此，地球要求地理学家从根本上重新考虑他们的学科通常采取的非地球化和去地理化的本体认识论方向。人类世，因为行星气候紧急情况意味着 Terra Oikos 着火了，地理学家需要更新和振兴他们过时的地理本体论概念仪器 他们必须尽可能多地、尽可能快地尝试和保存，包括一个地球处于可怕的状态，即将离开全新世。