Under occupied shadows, a floating cosmic ground, xenoliths, and the breaths perceived by all beings are increasingly sharpened by humanity’s collective experiments. This work considers all existing entities as pioneers of a sentient cosmos—thinking not only from the Earth but from the universe at large—and positions both human and non-human elements as agents venturing together through unknown space, while also addressing the ecological emergencies of the present.
Starting from the current moment, in which space development has re-emerged as a major global political issue, the work confronts the pioneering drive of the new space age. From initiatives like SpaceX’s multi-planetary civilisation programme—extending fascist projects on Earth into the cosmos—Natal kick seeks to trace new relations. It articulates asymmetrical finitude as the irregular release of energy during a supernova explosion, marking the death of a star once considered infinite. By contrast, humanity projects its Earth-bound modes of domination and thinking beyond the planet, spreading terrestrial conflicts and unjust hierarchies among the stars and the cosmos under the supposed infinity of the commons, actively reinforcing extractivist practices.
Contemporary society enters a new space era through scientific production and experimentation beyond Earth’s boundaries. Private corporations and state governments attempting to exploit space treat its territory as an inexhaustible resource, deploying the finitude of the cosmos as propaganda for political ideologies that transcend national and anthropological borders. In this world—finite from the beginning—all agents of action can be, as Latour suggests, political agents, human and non-human alike. Here, cosmopolitics points toward a cooperative approach to addressing global crises. The work aspires to remake our relationship with the cosmos and dream new political imaginaries. In doing so, it recognises all actors—including humans, non-humans, objects and environments—as political agents, and places them within a shared discourse on planetary conditions.

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