03 Third Order/Fields/Natural World/Earth
Earth
Earth names the natural world body within which human participation becomes materially, ecologically, atmospherically, and historically carried. Earth is not only a location or object; it is the local carrying body through which life, society, sustenance, invention, memory, and choice remain possible.
Trace
Read
Earth becomes recognisable where human life is read as occurring within a material and ecological carrying body rather than above, outside, or merely upon a background setting.
Structural Role
Earth gives Earth Carrying its local body. Without Earth as a term, earth carrying can become only a general environmental concern. With Earth placed, the carrying relation has a body, field, boundary, atmosphere, sustenance relation, and consequence path.