Description: Planetary Personhood is an interplanetary campaign pursuing radical space decolonization. The project proposes independent personhood for the entire planet Mars, and considers the possibility of solidarity with the entities already there - the stones! Can we be kind to a planet, even without “life”?
1. Let Mars Be Mars 2. Recognize All Martians 3. Welcome to Earth Allan! 4. Mars Is Not Terra Nullius 5. Honor Nonlife: End Biocentrism 6. Stones Are Our Ancestors 7. Respect Other Ways of Being 8. Martian Matter Matters
As NASA, SpaceX, and others, now attempt to bring earthlings to Mars, Planetary Personhood is an opportunity to free ourselves from the conceptual baggage of earthly traditions and systems. Seeking to move away from the dualistic divide between living beings and inanimate matter, the project invites us to a new way of relating to a planetary whole, and to the myriad of nonhuman forces and actants that surround us.
Through independent personhood, Mars will be owned by Mars. Any decisions regarding Martian matters will ultimately be taken by Mars, a new legal entity with rights protected in a Martian constitution.