PlanetaryAbstraction names a representation that makes a global condition legible while erasing part of the territorial texture that composes it. Planetary scale is necessary for climate, logistics, migration and technological systems, but its apparent unity can flatten unequal histories, exposures and capacities. The operator does not reject abstraction. It asks what local differences were compressed to produce the whole, which territories become exemplary or invisible and how global representation can remain answerable to situated consequence.
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