Daily Planet #1: On Paradigm Shifts

I often go to Noema for my planetary readings, and this article is also a planetary reading with a twist. For it starts with the claim:

As we have written often in Noema, this conceptual reorientation would entail a redefinition of what realism means in geopolitics. This new condition calls not for the old “realpolitik” that seeks to secure the interests of nation-states against each other but for a “Gaiapolitik” aimed at securing a livable biosphere for all.

However, the Paradigm Shift this issue talks about is going in the exact opposite direction:

Instead of the global interconnectivity forged in recent decades maturing into a planetary perspective, it is breaking up into a renewed nationalism more emphatically sovereigntist than before the advent of globalization.

From the fascinating cybernetic image library: