We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history , people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. All that was solid melted into air long ago and is now in full circulation around the world like dandelion seeds adrift on turbulent winds. We find ourselves, in the early twenty-first century, in a world where every major domain of human activity has become increasingly defined by motion. 1 We have entered a new historical era defined in large part by movement and mobility and are now in need of a new historical on-tology appropriate to our time. The observation that the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first was marked by an increasingly " liquid " and " mobile modernity " is now something widely recognized in the scholarly literature at the turn of the century. 2 Today, however, our orientation to this event is quite different. Almost twenty years into the twenty-first century we now find ourselves situated on the other side of this heralded transition. The question that confronts us today is thus a new one: how to fold all that has melted back up into new solids. 3

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.

In this intervention, I put forward five short theses on the topic of ‘Anthropocene mobilities.’ My aim is not to unpack every concept con- tained herein but rather to provide a provocative introductory synthesis of five big ideas about Anthropocene mobility for further discussion. 1) We are living in the Kinocene, 2) The ontology of our time is an ontology of motion, 3) We need a new movement-oriented political theory to grapple better with the mobile events of our time. We need a kinopolitics, 4) Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation. 5) The Kinocene presents us with the danger of new forms of domination (a new coloni- alism, a new climate capitalism, new states, and new borders) but also with the opportunity for a new revolutionary sequence.

The amount of information available to archaeologists has grown dramatically during the last ten years. The rapid acquisition of observational data and creation of digital data has played a significant role in this "information explosion". In this paper, we propose new methods for knowledge creation in studies of movement, designed for the present data-rich research context. Using three case studies, we analyze how researchers have identified, conceptualized, and linked the material traces describing various movement processes in a given region. Then, we explain how we construct ontologies that enable us to explicitly relate material elements, identified in the observed landscape, to the knowledge or theory that explains their role and relationships within the movement process. Combining formal pathway systems and informal movement systems through these three case studies, we argue that these systems are not hierarchically integrated, but rather intertwined. We introduce a new heuristic tool, the "track graph", to record observed material features in a neutral form which can be employed to reconstruct the trajectories of journeys which follow different movement logics. Finally, we illustrate how the breakdown of implicit conceptual references into explicit, logical chains of reasoning, describing basic entities and their relationships, allows the use of these constituent elements to reconstruct, analyze, and compare movement practices from the bottom up.

Tomás Saraceno's 'Aerocene' is an alternative, hopeful vision for the new epoch of the Earth into which we are moving, one in which the human being takes flight – imaginatively, vicariously, physically – into the flow of atmospheric currents, using craft powered only by the warmth of the sun. In this article I want to explore how the Aerocene might fit into the wider operating of the Earth system and its ongoing development. In his insightful book of geophysiology, Tyler Volk (2003) asks how we might identify the parts of Gaia's Body. As well as the different biomes that are distributed around the Earth's surface, and the five kingdoms of the evolutionary family tree, Volk considers as candidate parts of Gaia the primary pools of air, water, soil and life, the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur and the 'guilds' of often unrelated organisms that perform similar functions, such as primary producers, herbivores and detritovores (Volk 2003: 93-124). We could try to situate different versions of an Aerocene future against any or all of these 'parts of Gaia'. But I want to introduce another way to conceptually divide our planet, or at least those parts of it that move within its extended body of rock, soil, water and air. This is based on an analysis of how things move. Over its 4.5 billion year history, the Earth has produced a wide diversity of kinds of motion amongst its constituent parts (Haff 2010; Szerszynski 2016a). However, for a complex set of reasons – a combination of natural physical laws, the composition and size of the earth, and particular contingent developments in Earth history – these kinds of motion, whether involving living or inanimate entities, have come to cluster into a handful of 'paradigms' or 'regimes'. Some of these paradigms emerged and were established early in Earth's history; others could only emerge when certain complex entities such as living things and artefacts evolved on the Earth. Each paradigm of motion involves a different kind of geometrical relationship between the movement of its parts to the movement of the whole, and a different mechanological relation of the moving whole to its wider environment. Each also draws the energy that powers the entities' motion from different points in the wider circulation of energy in the Earth system, and each has come to perform different functions in the maintenance and development of parts of that system. By situating the Aerocene in this wider evolving anatomy of Earthly mobilities, we can get a better sense of its potential significance for the future of our planet if any of its more radical elements were to be realised.

Motion defined the world of early modern savants. Whether Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or English, they were taken by the new intellectual challenges and options of a world populated by people and objects moving over lands, oceans and heavens. How are we to tell the history of knowledge at the eve of modernity giving this global experience its due? 1.1 Motion People living around the turn of the seventeenth century were experiencing motion in ways beyond the grasp of anyone less than a century earlier. Goods and people were crossing lands and oceans to distances never envisioned and in scales hardly imaginable by their recent predecessors. The earth itself was set in motion and the heavens were populated by a whole new array of moving objects: comets, moons, and sunspots. Even the motion of terrestrial objects – so close at hand and seemingly obvious – was being thoroughly reshaped. In the two centuries to follow, this incessant, world-changing motion would transform the creation, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge and the life and experience of the people producing it: savants, artisans, pilots, explorers and collectors. This volume comprises studies of this early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge.

This Australian Indigenous creactive work and its Treatise promote ways of thinking about practice and research that extend well beyond the current discourse. It invites re-thinking on how research can be practice-led in new ways, and what that might mean for future students. When discussing the challenges of today, this work signifies how "Western Style" thinking and theory is wanting in so many ways. It engages a new dynamic and innovative way of theorising, encouraging future students to apply their full capacity of energy and wisdom. (Extract from examiners' reports.)

In this paper I situate the Situationists' dérive within an analysis of drift as a planetary phenomenon. Using the concept of the 'middle voice', I suggest that drifting can lead us to a deeper understanding of the way that all things move, that move within the extended body of the Earth. I develop the idea of 'driftwork', in which drift is subsumed within a wider set of purposes or functions, and describe different forms of more-than-human driftwork, with different political implications. I conclude by suggesting that things adrift can help us trace the lineaments of a planetary ethic: an ethic that extends beyond the human, the animal, and the living to the whole extended body of the Earth; that allows us to recontextualize human practices of drifting within a planetary context; that is sensitive to the debt that all moving things owe to the planetary mobility commons that enables their motion; and that helps us to recognize our obligations of care towards all drifting things.