The sentiment of taking perspective on our situation from the imagined distance of billions of kilometers away is drawn from Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Ballantine Books, 1994).
Björn Wittrock, “Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition” Daedalus 129, No. 1, (Winter, 2000), 31–60.
In Reinhart Koselleck’s etymological definition, the word crisis and critical, both derive from the Greek term Krino meaning “to ‘separate’ (part, divorce), to ‘choose,’ to ‘judge,’ to ‘decide’.” See Reinhart Koselleck, “Crisis” in Journal of the History of Ideas 67, no. 2 (April 1, 2006), 358.
See Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, and Hilde Heynen, “Theory in the expanded field,” The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory (London: Sage, 2012), 1–21.
McKenzie Wark, “Introduction,” General Intellects: Twenty-Five Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Verso, 2017), 1–15.
François Cusset, “Theory (Madness of): From structure to rhizome, transdisciplinarity in French thought,” Radical Philosophy 167 (May–June, 2011), 24–30. See also Francois Cusset, “Worldwide Theory: A Global Legacy,” in French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 287–308.