The genius of Gravity was to replace space, with place. The movie makes you feel the void at the heart of our…

The genius of Gravity was to replace space, with place. The movie makes you feel the void at the heart of our culture. The absence of place. William Shatner when returning from orbit said the ‘final frontier’ is really the Earth beneath us. All space is cold death. /1 https://t.co/0nJjYBvBKU

Outer space, as wall as place turned into spaces by economies, here on Earth. Real estate. Maps of acquisition. Without all of the mutual ties to the critical zone, the tiniest layer worked by life at the surface of the Earth, we’re dead. /2

Both Covid and climate change are the outcome of this loss of place. The dislocation and decoupling from the critical zone. Our obsession with travel another symptom, where we accumulate places as spaces, like stamps. /end