What kind of urbanism will the programme propose? An urbanism that is pro-planning, pro-artificial, anti-collapse, pro-universalist, anti-anti-totality, pro-materialist, anti-anti-leviathan, and anti-mythology and pro-egalitarian distribution. It starts with a different set of assumptions: the planet is artificially sentient; climate collapse mitigation and pervasive automation can converge; the concept of 'climate change' is an epistemological accomplishment of planetary-scale computation; automationis a general principle by which ecosystems work; necessary fundamental shifts in geotechnology are likely to precede necessary fundamental shifts ingeopolitics; 'surveillance' of carbon flows is a good thing; energy infrastructures based on long term waste cycles are desirable; for ecological carrying capacity ‘culture’ costs more than science; planetarity requires philosophy in and of outer space; speculative design must focus on what is sodeeply functional as to be unlikely; and that, finally, the future becomes something to be prevented as much as achieved. [#society](/relevant/new/society) [#climate](/relevant/new/climate)