In 2015, former US President Barak Obama signed the US Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act, which deregulated the commercial exploration of space for private investment and profiteering. While space mining is a reality in global economics and the natural sciences, its wider implications have largely escaped the humanities. Our research program seeks to fill this gap by building on and expanding the work begun by the Centre des recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité (CELCP, Université de Montréal). Today’s research and activism must find new and creative ways to respond critically to the current “post-global” moment and the recent posthuman turn in academia and culture (Braidotti 2013). Consisting of scholars based in French and English literary and cultural studies, African studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Communication Studies, a creative writer and research activist, our multidisciplinary research team mobilizes the cultural and literary imagination to reclaim creative human agency and to project new forms of knowing and acting in common when confronted with the uneven social impact of planetary changes. Our research program has four objectives. (1) The development of a solid research agenda based on academic and non-academic collaborations to establish “Planetary Cultural and Literary Studies” as a new field of research in Quebec. (2) By examining how humans imagine and inhabit their relationship to the planet, the nonhuman, and outer space relationally and collectively, this project will outline emerging competing planetary—rather than global or national—imaginaries and epistemologies. (3) Planetarity constitutes a new paradigm that necessitates a revision and reinvention of the stories and vocabularies we use to explain the present state of planetary life. If the planet is not a given, how does it become legible as an object, politics, relationship, or narrative? Our team will collectively generate an open online Planetary Glossary to reflect and invent emerging planetary vocabularies and discourses. (4) Based on our understanding of planetarity as an epistemological and creative practice that operates transformatively on social, cultural, aesthetic, and economic levels, we will produce a bilingual Position Paper on Planetary Pedagogies designed for public discussion in High Schools, CEGEPs, and the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur. These objectives will be pursued through four distinct yet related research axes which generate original approaches to planetary thinking that take the planet’s alterity and volatility as a material reflection of human creative agency and knowledge production. Given the ways in which the multiple temporalities of the planet affect and reshape planetary spaces, our program examines possible exits from global capitalism and communal capacities to assemble planetary collectivities to challenge the dominance of neoliberal reasoning. Moreover, we track the historical legacies of planetary violence, such as the Cold War, and their inscription into the aesthetic and political practices of geospatial memory, mourning, illness, human-nonhuman relationships and digital storytelling.