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Planetary mobilities: movement, memory and emergence in the body of the Earth

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  • Bronislaw Szerszynski

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In this paper, I present a unified framework for understanding abiotic, biotic and technological mobilities as achievements of a far-from-equilibrium planet self-organising over geological time, and generating informationally rich forms of matter and motion. I discuss how flows of energy through the Earth support the emergence of different kinds of movement in spatially distinct ‘mobility regions’ and scale-related ‘mobility situations’. I also discuss how technological mobilities exhibit forms of ‘gratuity’, a relative uncoupling of different aspects of motion, which have arisen repeatedly in the Earth’s past, and may presage the emergence of radically new forms of planetary mobility.

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  • Bronislaw Szerszynski, 2016. "Planetary mobilities: movement, memory and emergence in the body of the Earth," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 614-628, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:11:y:2016:i:4:p:614-628
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211828
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