The world is in decomposition, thank God. Lacan's words ironically echo the cosmological unease at the heart of Western modernity. As the globalized nomos disperses, the planet comes forth as a new grand narrative that assimilates zones of extinction, extraction and isolated resistance. This book navigates our age's cosmological reason with a focus on its roots in the collective imagery and sensibility. A critique of the planetary syntax and its opposing factions is now necessary if we want to escape the impasse of our epoch.