On the Use and Abuse of Planetarity for Life
Federico Luisetti (Universität St. Gallen)

In his second Untimely Meditation, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life” (1874), Friedrich Nietzsche dissects the “disease” of historical consciousness, calling for an affirmative relation to life that breaks away from the decadence of European culture. In my contribution, I will discuss some contemporary uses and abuses of the idea of “planetarity,” such as Christophe Bonneuil’s concept of a “regime of planetarity” and Dipesh Chakrabarty’s advocacy of a “planetary turn.” To counteract the tendency of planetary discourses to reproduce dominant modes of understanding and representing life and nonlife, I suggest a decolonial engagement with the concept of “zone,” in the context of contemporary pluriversal approaches to political ecology.

Solarpunk’s Radical Futures
Maria Antònia Martí Escayol, Raul Ciannella (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

The solarpunk movement will be critically examined in depth, analyzing both its innovative proposals and inherent limitations. We will focus on establishing the movement’s genealogy, its alignment with post-growth imaginaries, its transformative potential versus actual societal influence, and its unique contributions to world-building, linguistic frameworks, and conceptual paradigms. Through engagement with key solarpunk theorists and collectives, the analysis aims to provide a nuanced evaluation of the movement’s capacity to shape alternative futures, balancing its aspirational visions with practical constraints.

Psychoplanetarity: Wasted Times
Giovanbattista Tusa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

There is an extinction that is not death, an annihilation that is completely different from the mere end of thought. A coming solar explosion that makes the expectation of death as the limit of all life useless, unthinkable. This to-come behind us renders all memory superfluous and liberates thinking from the desire for a first cause or primal scene, effectively overcoming any separation between thought and action. When earthly memory fails, thought is reopened by the solar futurity, and cosmic contingencies take the place of the disavowal of life.

Moleculocracy. Ecologies, conflicts, turbulences
Emanuele Braga (Università Bicocca)

Indeterminacy, turbulence, and entropy from thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and cybernetics: the provocative thesis is that contemporary science is grounded in potentially revolutionary concepts that can be operationally connected to the ideas of autonomy, operaismo, libertarian communism, transfeminism, and indigenous movements.
Within this terrain of radical imagination, what political role can art play in the challenge of performing reality through conflict?

Heterogenetic Temporalities and Altergorithmic Topologies of Spatial Politics
Chiara Caiazzo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona)

The deranged condition of the present is marked by crisis, instability, and fragmentation. This fragmentation manifests across spatial configurations, through the polemical proliferation of arenas of meaning-making, and, above all, within the realm of temporality. Temporality is never only a matter of chronology; it is, fundamentally, a politico-aesthetic problem. Time is always already framed, contested, and represented through language and culture, with implications for how we understand continuity, rupture, and radical change. The temporalities of the present resist emplotment or any kind of coherent, overarching narration because they are non-linear, dispersed, and hyper-saturated with a sense of both urgency and deferral. In global crises, temporality becomes a central political problem not merely in terms of how time is experienced, but in how it conditions the very possibility of critical reflection and transformative action. Temporality is essentially heterogenetic—it cannot be traced to a single origin or form. Time and space are closely linked, and neither of them is ever neutral: they are always political markers, spaces where political dynamics disclose. A topology refers to the relational process-based structures that connects and organizes concepts, spaces, and subjectivities. The notion of ‘altergorithm’ can pave the way for rethinking sympoietic practices of worlding and unworlding through the virtual extension of possibilities for future interspecies assemblages. In the context of emergency, it is crucial to interrogate the multiple geometries of spatial politics, the ways space is organized and controlled—urban planning, territoriality, power structures in geography. This experimental theoretical approach explores how non-linear or diverse experiences of time intersect with the ways space is politically structured and governed, while also investigating how altergorithms disclose new perceptual and relational arrangements, opening spaces for previously unthinkable modes of subjectivation and communal existence.

Cartographies of the flesh: making worlds through chewing and biting
Clara Benito (independent researcher)

Within this talk, I will explore what cannibalism—both literal and metaphorical—can teach us about eco-cosmological thinking in the context of mass extinction, environmental deterioration, and climate crisis. I’m interested in how acts of ingestion and incorporation—chewing, biting, swallowing—can be understood not just as mere biological processes, but as cosmopolitical gestures: practices that produce, dismantle, and reconfigure worlds. The fact of being flesh confronts us with a series of hierarchies and biases sculpted by our teeth and tongues, shaped by our saliva, and hardened through biting. Eating is never only about nourishment; it is about choosing worlds, mapping out desire, power, exclusion, and belonging. This talk asks: which bodies are eaten, and which are left to die? Which flavors are canonized, and which are discarded? And what can the act of devouring teach us about the fragility, interdependence, grief and violence that mark this current planetary moment?

Digital Aesthetics and Counter-Models
Lucia Rebolino (Forensic Architecture)

Focusing on weather as media, counter-modeling becomes an artistic method to subvert dominant scientific narratives. It embraces error and uncertainty as conditions of possibility, developing speculative aesthetics and critical tools to expose how computational infrastructures and predictive systems shape environmental knowledge, imaginaries, and power.